But I also want to note something that I couldn't help but detect because it was so obvious, that there are some members...
I want to conclude the hearing by thanking all of the witnesses today, and most especially with a renewed appreciation o...
The excess timber is going to come out of the forest one way or the other. Either it is going to be carried out or it wi...
But once we get through the bureaucratic process, then the litigation starts, and the litigation has no chance of succes...
But the point I want to emphasize is this is not some great step forward. It is not even an incremental step forward com...
Only in America will you have the government that pays, that actually gives grant money to environmental groups, and the...
You can't blame the Senate or the President for that. All appropriations originate in the House.
And frankly, I would challenge the Republican majority in the House to bring that to a halt.
Representative McClintock spoke to that, and it was by 2001 that most of the big mills closed.
Now it seems the Federal Government has to pay you to remove timber from the public lands.
The concern I am trying to explore is that just the bureaucratic delay alone in preparing the sale consumes a great port...
It used to be that lumber companies would bid for timber on Federal lands. They would pay the Federal Treasury to purcha...
I am particularly interested today in suggestions of what needs to be done legislatively and administratively to unravel...
We're told that there isn't enough money for forest thinning, and yet we used to have no problems keeping our forests th...
When the mills in my district closed in 2009 the owner made it very clear that although the economic downturn was a cata...
The result is now clear and undeniable: economically devastated communities, closed timber mills, unemployed families, o...
Eliminating Federal Red Tape and Excessive Litigation is indeed the only path to Create Healthy Forests, Jobs and Abunda...
I again want to thank Congressman Scott Tipton for his leadership on these issues and for pressing to have this field he...
