Thank you all for being here today.
The current report language limiting the use of humane euthanasia for unwanted and unadopted horses should be removed.
The security of the electric grid is critically important to most Americans.
We will continue working on it until we find a solution, but we have people--we have groups that have different interests in different parts...
They should have hearings in the authorizing committees and certainly shouldn't be cut off by riders on the floor.
When an incident happens then everybody starts wringing their hands and say, why didn't we do this or do that?
without additional federal support, it would be unrealistic for us to maintain this type of program at this level forever
the $77 million level that is being requested by the President this year just is not enough to address with that.
Finally, we strongly support the continued inclusion of the no kill language to ensure that BLM does not kill healthy wild horses and burros...
We support these efforts, and we request that any increase in appropriations under the Wild Free Running Horses and Burros Act be used solel...
Thank you, and do not forget our friends in the United States Senate.
If you have any interest in any part of the Interior bill, whether it is the Smithsonian, whether it is, the National Zoo, or whatever it is...
It is now Congress to act decisively to ensure that these animals are neither sent into holding facilities nor sent in to slaughter.
We need to actively manage a lot of these forests, and particularly around areas that have cost us a lot of money to fight them.
I appreciate your support for the bill that we are trying to do.
We do have a concern, though, that sequestration could have, in the future, negative impacts, and we look forward to any support that you co...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
You cannot help but be discouraged about it.
