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I always have figured that these are owned by the people of the United States and consequently if you allow someone else to extract them, that the people of the United States ought to get a certain percentage of that regardless of what the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The solutions really aren't rocket science. They are ones that a pretty rudimentary political scientist should be able to resolve.

This is kind of depressing to listen to because nobody has really put the finger on who is at fault here.

What are we doing to coordinate the hundreds of millions of dollars we are spending on climate change?

I fully believe we need to do what we can in terms of climate change and trying to address climate change and carbon emissions and so forth.

Enforcement activities primarily occur in EPA's 10 regions which possess considerable autonomy, causing significant variations in enforcement activities from region to region.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

They just have fewer people amongst whom to split up the costs, and so it is more per homeowner.

Small communities simply cannot afford these loans; in fact, that is one of the real problems we have.

What is important to us with this regulatory procedure is that the EPA follow what we call around here 'regular order.'

I applaud your efforts in that area.

I hear this from Forest Service employees quite frankly all over the country that have talked to me and their concern of the morale.

And why OMB looks at the Forest Service and says that and does not say it in some other area is of concern.

Well, what bothers me a little bit about this is if you only give 60 percent of the fixed costs, you are effectively setting policy.

Chairman Dicks has been a champion in this regard, and I thank him for his leadership.

Our common goal is to establish credible, sustainable wildfire budgets without decimating non-fire-related programs.

And we lose a lot of children by not interacting with them appropriately in the first 3 years of their development.