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Congress needs to do its job and not just complain about them sitting out there as recommended wilderness areas.

If there is an agency where you would think the employees would love to get up and go to work, it would be the Forest Service.

Just on that, as you know, when you start decommissioning roads, there has to be an appropriate reason to do so.

But working together, we have made a sincere effort to find common ground on many issues.

Much to the credit of Chairman Dicks, last year's conference report included historic changes in the way we budget for wildfire suppression.

I want to publicly thank Chairman Dicks for his fine work, his sense of fairness and his steady hand leading this subcommittee in recent years.

I do not believe that it is settled. Certainly man has an impact. The extent of that impact is what the debate is all about.

It concerns me when the agency says it is settled science because what is, I think, probably settled is that most people agree that climate change is occurring.

I appreciate that, and I appreciate the fact that you understand that it is those small operators that we are really concerned about.

These people are ready to hand you the keys to their cities and say the heck with it.

Every one of the meetings turned into a 'what the hell is EPA doing' meeting.

I do not think a lot of people think it is settled science.

Twenty percent becomes a pretty good level for that, but I have a whole bunch of questions that we will ask later.

At some point in time we have got to say, 'have we lost our minds?'

The people are saying, why are we spending this ungodly amount of money to reduce our arsenic levels from twelve to ten and sometimes eleven to ten.

It appears to be on life support in the Senate, and I do not believe it could pass the House again today.

The people are even less ready and willing now than in the recent past.

The Supreme Court did not force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.