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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.