We urge you to resist any attempt to remove this exemption.
The BLM supports S. 757 and its goal of providing for the long-term economic development needs of the City.
We are grateful to Chairman Wyden and the Committee for taking this on.
We need to do more, not less.
this is a provision based on a law that we adopted in Oregon when I was Speaker that worked incredibly well.
I believe that the President's request is $350 million, if the numbers I have are right.
This is an effort to address a significant area in southern Oregon, where you have a complicated set of rivers and dams ...
it's one of those things that doesn't cost much, and actually the businesses are very happy.
the fiscal year 2013 enacted amount was $682 million, so roughly a 50-percent decrease in those block grants.
I just want to note that a 'for example' is that we spend $80 billion-plus in the home mortgage interest deduction to pr...
This is really a strategy that gets people started in homeownership which has a huge impact on the success of families.
Okay. So we anticipate getting that done, and hopefully, we'll get it arranged through the House.
Thank you. And are you satisfied with the stewardship contracting reauthorization as structured in the Senate farm bill?
If we lose the infrastructure that's out there because we don't have predictable supply, then it all falls on the taxpay...
With the changing or the more extensive droughts, we're going to see that this problem of accumulated fuels becomes of m...
Thank you. And I do appreciate the advocacy for funding. This has been a key, key set of programs.
I first wanted to ask about, we have a mill in John Day that has been at high risk of closing.
We're looking at a proposed budget that cuts the hazardous fuels reduction in half.
