I very much appreciate what you are trying to do to correct the long-standing, I think, failed policy of fire suppression.

I recognize that $300 million is probably out of the can. As has been said by others here, it is a really serious problem.

I am very concerned about the Class 3 areas in the Sierra Nevada, which are about a third of the Class 3 areas in those strategic areas of Class 3.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

I think it is going to cause a huge problem of conflict in the State.

That is very kind of you. Thank you very much.

If you read current law and you follow it, which your Administration hasn't done and doesn't seem to want to do, if you follow the letter of current law, you are going to see a 90 percent decrease in mercury.

You are using up the fund. There is hardly anything left.

But I guess my plea to you right now is to please, please move on this.

I was distressed to see the Administration wait so long to release your report on Children and Environmental Risks.

We have wasted precious time. There are women who have no idea, who are of child-bearing age, pregnant now, eating too much of this fish and getting too much mercury.

I am very disturbed about our abandoning, the Administration abandoning, polluter-pays for cleaning up Superfund.

I totally disagree with your statement that your so-called Clear Skies Initiative is going to get rid of more mercury than current law.

Our bill bans human reproductive cloning.

Under our bill, anyone who even attempts to clone a human being will face a 10-year prison term and a minimum $1 million fine.

I believe that we should adopt a balanced, common-sense approach to this issue: ban human cloning--that is, creating a whole-body, carbon copy of a human being--but permit valuable stem cell research to continue, with strong and strict…

Do you support the holding of Roe that women have a constitutionally recognized and protected right to choose?

I think it is very important, because I think we have a reasonable certainty that this bill is going to pass.