These policies have been weighed by experience and found wanting.

our Federal forests are dying.

Mr. Neiman, we have received extensive testimony that private lands are in much better condition, overall, than the public lands.

Well, that is exactly right. And that gets me to my next point, which is if we are facing warmer weather, and if CO2 is the culprit, doesn't that point to a greater need to keep the tree density under control?

Does it suggest also that perhaps we should expedite the salvage of fire-killed timber while it still has some value and before it begins to decay and release enormous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere?

treatment matters.

These forests are going to grow, regardless of whether we manage them or not, so we are either going to grow timber products and use them, or we are going to grow firewood.

We were told that this is a false choice between the economy and the environment, and I could not agree more.

Congressman, I can't even get to this fire on the ground.

If I had a subscription to and received six newspapers a day, and only threw one away, how long would it take for my house to become a fire trap? Probably about as long as the forest.

When we changed the laws that have made it virtually impossible to manage our lands, our economies have withered and our forests are dying.

There seems to be a complete disconnect between the global warming enthusiasts and the policies that they are recommending to us.

I find it highly disturbing that just yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported our President still questions the intelligence community's assessment that Russia engaged in massive cyber attacks on the United States last year.

Assad is a murderous thug, though----

I don't have a problem with helping our ally Saudi Arabia, but many Members of Congress... do have a significant problem when the Saudi-led military coalition is committing war crimes in Yemen.

And I don't mean to be facetious with this, but does the President know that?

How do you square that sale, what the President has been saying about Qatar, since you said arm sales are an element of foreign policy?

Is that true that we are selling them $12 billion worth of fighter jets?