Honorable Maurice D. Hinchey
United States Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Hinchey, of the Twenty-Second District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the New York Assembly from 1974 to 1992. He sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. The following is from the July 17, 2003, House floor debate on an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2004 Interior Appropriations Act introduced by Representative Inslee stating that no funds in the act may be used to change the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, promulgated in January 2001 by the Clinton Administration.The National Forest System was created nearly a…
