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There has never been such broad consensus around legislation for the Boulder-White Clouds.

We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

It is time to get the job done.

The bill needed more compromise.

This bill only conveys 907 acres. I will apologize already that you will not see me tear up over the fact that this does convey 907 acres out of the hands of the Federal Government.

This bill is truly the work of the collaboration process to which a lot of people in this room subscribe and with which they are very familiar.

Senator Wyden, before you go, thank you for your work on, fire on Western acres. It has been a pleasure working with you on timber issues, and I look forward to continuing.

I am confident there is broad agreement on this committee, within the Administration and in Indian country that the negotiated settlement model is a far better approach than the litigation model.

Water rights are fundamental to the survival of Native American tribes.

Idaho is a model for the type of success that can be achieved by the settlement model.

Water resource management is a critical issue everywhere, but prolonged drought conditions and inherently arid regions in western states make this issue especially important to Idaho and its neighbors.

I definitely personally would not like to see the agency be its own watchdog.

Who decides whether the agency has exceeded the budget? How is that calculated?

Let us assume that Congress were to pass a law that created a regulatory budget.

The playing field has changed since 1978, and that is what this is aimed at and it is aimed at trying to pick up some of the realities that are out there in the marketplace today.

What this bill does is it brings need into the equation, and its need to be determined by the state public utility regulators.

The goal post gets changed, and we are seeing that. We see it over and over and over again, and it is incredibly frustrating for people trying to do business.

I know it is going to come as a horrendous shock to people in this town, but the states actually can make these kinds of decisions.