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I am honored to co-sponsor this bill with you.

I want to work with Senators Bingaman, Bennett, and Udall to address this issue that is so important to New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado.

In the face of this emergency, the administration must ignore politics and focus on results.

Interesting. Thank you.

S. 2798 recognizes that we are facing a forest health disaster in the West, and we must respond with the same intensity that we would to other natural disasters.

S. 2798 is a simple, common sense bill that could be easily implemented by land management agencies.

The fire burns very differently when it hits an area that has previously either been harvested or been burned previously.

It is interesting. Does that include the time of the year also?

It is hard for me to believe that a dead stand, particularly if it has still got needles on it, won't burn faster and hotter than a live stand will.

I am deeply disappointed to see that the President's budget does not allocate a single penny to addressing this multi-State emergency.

It would be a shorter period of time than red fir, I would assume?

I want to make that clarification.

I probably would beg to differ with you if that was the conclusion that the studies that you cited reached.

I would urge that a new 'Wise Man's Commission' be set up--similar to those that have played an important role in past years.

I am also recommending that President Obama, during his November visit to Japan, should go to Hiroshima and use the symbolism of that place to declare his vision of a nuclear-free world.

U.S. policy toward Japan should not be dictated solely by the needs of U.S. Marine Corps, however legitimate they may be.

My bottom line, Mr. Chairman, is that there should be a reexamination of the entire alliance.

That would be rural America, but Mr. Cole and I will come and visit your school at 6,700 feet if you will provide the oxygen.