I think it is important that we see the overall plan and understand the savings, how much has been done there.

I want to thank you for your leadership to make this a reality.

As long as our Nation has nuclear weapons, we need to do everything we can to carry out this mission safely.

We very much appreciate your efforts to move toward these alternative forms of energy.

We're trying to lift that sequester and do everything we can to get you the resources you need.

I think that's going to be very effective.

New Mexico is a very rural State. And as you're aware from our discussions, in rural New Mexico, as well as rural areas throughout the country, it can be very difficult to recruit doctors and nurses and staff to serve in rural clinics…

I am supportive of the President's request for military construction in New Mexico.

We have a big problem in New Mexico because our medical school on the day of graduation--we invest in all this; the State of New Mexico puts in money--75 percent of our graduates leave the State on that day of graduation.

But I also want to echo the concerns of my colleagues about the reduction in timber targets from 2.6 billion to 2.3 billion as I read it.

Given rising suppression costs and the fact that the agency spends nearly half of its budget on wild fire management which I think my colleague, Senator Johnson, alluded to.

I'm not going to continue on and have that conversation with you. But I hear you saying you're focusing on what we call the red zones of the WUI, the Wild Urban Interface.

On a scale of 1 to 10 how confident are you? Ten being the most confident that we're going to have the air assets we need?

I want to thank you and your team for your efforts to implement 3 long term stewardship contracts in Colorado that have already released fuels around communities while providing valuable forest products.

In my State and you heard Senator Murkowski and other of my colleagues talk about how critical the forest products industry is in the improving of the health of our forests while providing jobs.

I want to just highlight a couple. So we have got 63.5 billion for the Administration.

I am in a state that has got negative job growth, and I think the only state in the country.

I actually proposed an amendment to the Republican budget that would fund HIS, which is woefully under-funded.