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Indian issues and Indian Country has always been a bipartisan issue on this committee.

We need to work this out so that we are all on the same page because I am on your side on what you are trying to do here.

I appreciate what you do, and I would love to entertain you out in Idaho.

I do want to thank you for the work that you did in making sure that these local organizations could survive during this pandemic because it was critical to a lot them.

One of my advocacies is to make sure that we get grants and so forth out to rural communities.

To me, that is a very important program, and we need to make sure that it gets funded at an adequate level to be able to carry out their responsibilities and stuff, as I am sure you are well aware.

I think there is really good bipartisan support and has been for the National Park Service in this committee over the years.

We can't ignore that we have betrayed the trust of many people in the past because we haven't done some of this mining right in the past.

I come from an agricultural State of North Carolina. I have spent a lot of time on this issue.

I have kind of come to the conclusion, no matter what rule we write, we are going to get sued.

It just seems like writing a new rule in the midst of all this uncertainty before the Supreme Court rules seems premature now.

Well, I appreciate that answer. I wish my ranchers, and farmers, and others felt the same way.

We have all been committed to keeping our treaty obligations and trust obligations with tribes.

We have a treaty responsibility with these tribes, one that I am painfully aware of, that is necessary that we try and meet.

Streamlining permitting processes across a variety of sectors is something Congress could do right now to expand energy deliverability.

Unfortunately, West Virginians know all too well that the government doesn't always offer the best solution.

I was proud to be a sponsor of the bill to designate the New River Gorge as our nation's newest national park.

We have a huge problem coming out of the pandemic with the reality that IMF requirements... these countries not going to be able to meet it.