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Somehow we have to get the message out to the public. And that is when Congress will respond.

I have always said, and I am a big supporter of education and math and science and all that, I know it is important, but when we do that at the expense of the arts then I think we lose something.

Science must be the compass guiding our environmental protection decisions; we cannot make the best decisions unless we have confidence in the integrity of the science on which we rely.

Our primary Federal investment ought to be in financial and technical assistance to citizens, landowners, small businesses, communities, States, tribes, and other nations.

I would also humbly and respectfully encourage you to embrace collaboration as the agency moves forward.

I am also puzzled by the fact that the capital improvement and maintenance portion of your budget is slated to receive an additional $50 million.

As a long time supporter of the arts and sometimes called a struggling artist myself, I look forward to each of you sharing your views on the Federal role in supporting culture in the arts.

And no matter what rules you put in place, somebody is going to violate those. If you are a crook, you are a crook.

We have a tendency, and whenever something goes wrong, and you know as well as I do that in a government of this many employees there is going to be some crooks.

My feeling is that there has got to be a better way.

One of my biggest concerns with the Forest Service is the impact that fire suppression costs are having on other program areas within the agency.

I want to commend you because every Chairman likes to be commended by his Ranking Member.

What I would like is--and when I say blow it up, is to create, you know, in your mind a theoretical in an ideal world, the utopia that you talked about, what would it look like...

But when is say blow it up, you missed the key point there. I said theoretically blow it up.

I also want to thank you for your willingness to assist my office with some complex Forest Service issues in my home State of Idaho.

Our job is to do what we think is right, and if we get dis-elected we get dis-elected, that is okay.

I support what they are doing. It is an old theater that is on the National Historic Registry.

One of the big complaints they have is that consolidation at Albuquerque and the difficulty it has made their job.