The cornerstone of the reforms is a permanent pay increase through a new authorization of a base rate salary table.

Idaho is rich in critical minerals, and it is vitally important we get these minerals out of the ground in Idaho and around the country.

The Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho is the largest antimony reserve outside of Chinese and Russian control.

They joined the Forest Service for their love of the outdoors and want to do their part to conserve and protect it.

Just because a critical mineral is found someplace doesn't mean that you can go mine it.

I am not going to bring up whether it ought to be one land management agency with the BLM.

I appreciate that we can have a productive conversation about the land management issues we are facing.

Affected farmers, ranchers, Tribes, Japanese-American community, and sportsmen have voiced legitimate objections.

We find we have much greater success going to the hunting organizations and talking to people, showing them what the effect is and stuff.

Change is hard, and some of these parks we have got to find a better way to do it.

somehow Congress has got to change the way we do NEPA and those other environmental laws, not to weaken them, not to take away the public's right to have a say in how things are managed

The EPA has done some good things.

I have seen conditions in this country that are simply unacceptable in the United States of America.

I think that is a good discussion to have, but I think it should happen as part of the annual appropriations process.

We don't want to be forced into a position where all of a sudden that, because of the annual appropriation process, you are going to have to lay off a couple thousand people or something like that.

You cannot by force take another country's territory.

If built, it would be one of the largest in the United States.

I was proud to work with the EPA, and the State of Idaho, and the City of Boise to do that.