Norman D. Dicks

I think the last thing we want to do is throw more money--if we cannot spend the money we have already got.

I brought the GAO in, and I asked them why have they not succeeded, and they said, bottom line, no accountability.

We changed the law so that we took the same kind of forgiveness procedures that we have under the safe drinking water act and applied them to clean water.

Before we enter into a prolonged debate about climate change and its source, our ability to regulate it, the cost of these regulations, and the economic impact of those regulations, please review for the committee how we got to this.

While suppression funding expands dramatically, the preparedness account which funds all the firefighters and equipments is level funded with no pay costs or inflation adjustment at all.

We are committed to increasing the funding for the Fish and Wildlife Service.

We choose to invest in programs that address global climate change and greenhouse gas reduction

It is all about trying to do it in a way that is sustainable in terms of a bipartisan coalition in the House

I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live.

Parks are important but so are the fish and wildlife refuges.

We realize what a difficult situation you are in out there, and we want to work with you on these requests.

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