Sally Jewell: “You would never run a business the way sequestration is forcing us to run our agencies.”

This budget recognizes the importance of Interior's programs to the overall strength of the Nation's economy.

We have a goal to engage by the end of this term a million hours of volunteer service on public lands--that is triple where we are right now--and a goal to create 100,000 jobs over 4 years on public lands through working collaboratively…

The state of Indian education--student performance as well as the condition of Bureau of Indian Education facilities--is an embarrassment to you and to us.

I hope upon hope that you and your colleagues will move us beyond sequestration because as a business person, it is a crazy way to run a country.