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Are your members unnecessarily burdened by the Corps' conflicting and confusing outright ban on firearms?

Conservation started with hunters and anglers.

Americans' Second Amendment rights must be restored to lands managed by the Corps.

The Supreme Court in the District of Columbia v. Heller affirmed that the Second Amendment is an individual right and the right to an operable firearm for self-defense is one that Americans have.

I think any time that there are different rules on different public lands that are basically confusing to the public that it needs to be clarified.

I am going to support that budget for nuclear physics.

It is absolutely the wrong time to close the RHIC.

I do not think that would be in the national interest, that we will be better off if we can apply the science that we do for the betterment of mankind.

I guess one of my concerns is last year during the budget negotiation or the appropriation negotiations on this bill my argument was now is not the time to drop out of this and withdraw our funding from it and we need to see how these…

Because there are going to be efforts to defund it essentially in this appropriations cycle, I am pretty sure. Would that be a mistake?

The offices that you run are very, very important to the future of this country, so I appreciate it.

I have been reading several books, or maybe not several, but a few books on the threat to our grid and the infrastructure of our grid from EMPs and solar flares, those kind of things.

I will never criticize you for working across and between different offices. In fact, I have said we need more of that in the future.

This committee's desire to make sure that we have the trained nuclear experts in the future when that time comes.

Having the workforce in the future is going to be a big issue.

I was wondering if it was when Mr. Hobson was chairman. I was wondering if it was when Visclosky was chairman.

Why does the request specifically target students in radiochemistry instead of what the committee has been trying to do?

That was hard coming out, wasn't it? President Bush.