In your testimony, you identified the lack of royalties as one of the biggest problems with the Mining Law of 1872.
Fifty billion dollars?
So, oil, gas, coal, solar, wind, livestock, logging, and outdoor recreation all pay to use the public lands, but mining ...
In short, are the operational units of the military services prepared to execute their combat missions when asked?
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Readiness
We end up carrying the burden, and especially in a situation such as the one we faced in Montana...
So, it decimates your industry, plus we don't have the ability to clean up most of these abandoned mines.
We can't do it without it, I don't think.
We all recognize that readiness suffered during several years of underfunding following the 2011 enactment of the Budget...
It would be destabilizing? Is that your assessment?
Are the Armed Forces of the United States prepared to fulfill their constitutional duty to provide for the common defens...
All of us would like to understand how this steady funding has improved readiness with specific examples.
Many of us do feel that the situation at the southern border is also a national security issue.
If we went to sequestration levels again, it would be four times that.
Too bad we don't have any say in that.
I am going to leave now and head to the airport to be with the families during this time.
we are only going to be as strong as our weakest link, and in some cases, that could be the local communities.
an issue of growing importance for me is this issue of energy resilience and the development of microgrids
