Our taxes are lower than many States, but that is also correct.
Yes, I believe we would.
Establishing protection for these activities ought to be one of the goals that we look at.
So allowing paddling certainly would not underlie the values for which this river was established or is used?
We are tradition bound and we hide behind that, and we refuse to think outside the box.
What does the Federal Government have to lose by allowing States a greater place in the management of the lands between ...
Shame on America. Let us wake up to really what has happened to us.
You are strongly opposed to it because it would take too much work to try and implement a solution ahead of time. That t...
There are Federal lands that are being managed by State and local government by an agreement.
I wonder if they are prepared to do those kinds of agreements.
So would it not be wise to do it now in legislation? Why is the Department so adamantly opposed to solving the problem a...
It is not an issue of want. We do not have the authority to return money that has been obligated from a donation.
Do you know whose decision it was to close the parks despite the offers from the States?
Without objection, so ordered.
Which simply indicates that if the Federal Government has a backlog that in Alaska itself is $121 million, States certai...
I do appreciate what Mr. Grijalva has just said, and I would like simply to point out that while the shutdown was going ...
If you are not willing to do it even though you have done it in the past by finding some condition of technicality, then...
You still have the $2 million there. You have an additional roughly $2 million that is floating around in your budget.
