I find this hearing a little encouraging because I think we are fast approaching the same situation relative to the defi...
bond holders have received $60 billion over the last 3 years in excess mortgage payments from homeowners trapped in high...
When I sought to refinance my house, the mortgage agent sent me a HARP refinancing...
If the Federal government can bail out our automobile companies and banks, it cannot support bailing out the timber indu...
What we have always wanted in the West was a win-win. We wanted to have strong rural economies, and we wanted to protect...
I want to thank Senator Tester for his leadership and his friendship, and I look forward to working with him on this.
Understand that in the rural West, not only are people frustrated, they can't understand how it is that their Government...
We must do a better job of this, and I think Secretary Vilsack's speech in August of this year on the national forests a...
We have got to get some results because that is what our constituents are demanding of us.
Thank you very much.
What I think we are going to be measured on... is people are going to say how many acres did you get treated that you re...
please do the same with the landscape restoration suggested by the bill...mandate that too.
Good for Senator Jon Tester! Please give this critically important legislation every consideration.
Senator Tester, relying on the process of local collaboration, really has sought to make this legislation as appealing a...
The subcommittee will come to order, and good afternoon to all.
It is clear to me that a lot of these fires, they are not natural fires. These are infernos that just come about as a re...
We will be working very closely with you.
I will just have a very brief opening statement.