I appreciated your recognition of the importance of Amtrak for rural communities.

Senator Van Hollen has all the documents. We'll put them all into the record.

We'll put all the documents in the record, and you can make your arguments to the----

I think there's good bipartisan support, and Senator Shelby's trying to proceed in the direction so we don't have any more of these CRs and we do our bills on time.

I write to request a legal opinion from the U.S. Government Accountability Office concerning whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the annual governmentwide statutory prohibition on the use of funds for publicity or…

However, these innovations raise questions about children growing up in a digital world.

Yes, and we really appreciate what you did in New Mexico.

That is our point here.

Doesn't the public have a right to comment on the development of their public lands?

I strongly urge you to not move ahead unless the plan amendment has been signed and there has been robust Tribal consultation and input from stakeholders.

Well, they weren't doing it on the sage-grouse until everybody got together and tackled that.

I appreciate you want to improve resource stewardship by getting bureaus to focus on regional landscapes and to work across Federal, State, and local lines.

Mr. Secretary, you raised King Cove. Maybe Senator Murkowski is more up-to-date than I am on that, but could you provide the committee an update on the Izembek road?

Well, I think the reality is that, State flexibility, it ends up that we end up deteriorating the habitat for the sage-grouse.

I would also point out that we have an example of where the bureaus were able to do that already, the regional sage-grouse plans at your Department, and your Department is now in the process of scrapping those.

Mr. Secretary, will you submit, for the record, a schedule for Tribal consultations?

the reason we have the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the reason the commission that Senator Alexander talked about was put in place, and the high numbers that Senator Tester talked about, are to have additional parks at the local…

Soon is a couple of weeks?