Honorable Richard W. Pombo
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative Pombo, of the Eleventh District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served on the Tracy (California) City Council from 1990 to 1992. He chairs the Resources Committee and is a member of the Agriculture 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 Jay Inslee (WA-D) 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.We have talked a…