I think I have to submit that it is easier to replace a house than a planet, if we have the kind of damage that could come from climate chan...
Just one last question. Mr. Lewis, you referenced the operational right-of-way issue as a relatively simple--I am afraid it isn't.
I would just ask that each of you who represent organizations take back my idea, look at it--if you got other ideas--but you know, looking a...
I think it is important to drive that home when there is so much in flux.
But it just seems to me that one of the things that ought to be examined, if you are going to be subsidizing second homes, for instance, wit...
When the government spends other people's money, it has an ongoing obligation to ask a fundamental question: has it spent that money wisely?
the Lifeline fund has been fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse and that the money has not been spent as wisely as it should have been.
Because a preponderance of scientific evidence shows that human activity is leading to changes in the global climate, I submit that all clim...
If we adopted the Chamber of Commerce position, and raised the gas tax a nickel, that wouldn't solve the problem in 2015.
I am also going to be asking specifically for the witnesses to tell us what the impact of a 98-percent reduction in Federal aid to transit a...
The reality of climate change is increasingly impossible to deny.
if we don't do something, if Congress doesn't do something, in 2015 Federal investment in highways, roads, bridges, goes from $40.3 billion ...
I propose that we should index the existing gas tax to both fleet fuel economy average and a construction cost inflation.
Oregonians want an assurance that the water won't be cutoff to the Klamath project this summer.
The Oregon congressional delegation, myself, Senator Merkley, and Congressman Walden, is going to push very, very hard.
We also want to protect our treasures.
Thank you, Senator Wyden and Senator Murkowski, for considering our views.
Americans now spend $646 billion a year in outdoor recreation.