Congress should not continue to sit on the sideline while the agency engages in endless gymnastics in the hopes that it will satisfy the cou...
Senator Wyden; and Representatives DeFazio, Walden, and Schrader have initiated collaborative efforts to better understand and address these...
In my view too many of our forestry programs are not working for forest-dependent communities, for taxpayers or for the cause of protecting ...
You've got to come to one of my town hall meetings because the problem is now.
Thank you for the invitation, Senator Wyden, to speak before your committee.
Too often valuable timber lands are neglected to the point they become tinder boxes for catastrophic fire.
The fact is current forestry programs do not provide a stable source of funding of jobs or funding for local communities.
Instead of generating revenue, too often Federal forest lands have become a burden to our taxpayers.
The status quo is unacceptable.
the strategy of voter suppression has been used against blacks, Latinos, elderly, the poor, immigrants.
the 5-4 decision that just came out is deeply disturbing.
Does the system in general, as we have described it here, create extra hurdles for those who come to the education marketplace with poor ass...
we have a new form of debtor's prison for our students.
We're going to stay at it until we find a solution this time.
My own sense is this will require legislation.
Whiskey, that's for drinking and water that's for fighting.
The challenges now for us in Congress to put the same type of effort into this that all of our witnesses have put into the conversation.
We don't want to spend the next 20 years just enriching lawyers. We want to solve the problem.
