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I agree with my colleagues here who have suggested that sequestration is going to be devastating.

I would just encourage you and the other Federal regulators to focus on the full intent of EGRPRA and expand your review.

EGRPRA does not say, 'Let us review the rules and regulations that are old.' It says, 'Let us review them all.'

I was shocked to learn when I came here that Congress overrules the laws of nature, and that falling water is not a renewable resource.

I really appreciate the fact that you understand that you have got two agencies that we really need to bring together.

I think we should all be pulling a wagon in the same direction on that.

No one wants to spend money on it, but because of the world the way it is today, we have to.

It is important to all of us, and I think everybody is working in good faith to try to get this done.

I will tell you, it gives me pause to have confidence in the list that they are going to put together prioritizing needs if we do not have the ability to determine what the need is.

I do not understand why that has not happened here, and it reminded me as you were talking about this, the stories in the old days about the reservations and we were going to provide beef and so people took advantage of it and put spoiled…

Tell me about your roads program.

I am also concerned about the police protection and so forth on reservations, or the lack thereof and the incredible distance that area that tribes have within reservations and with very few officers and the danger that that causes and the…

There are also alcohol problems that occur just on the border of the reservation when somebody sets up a community there and that causes problems.

The biggest threat this country faces is the debt and deficit that we currently have.

I find it hard when you say it does not represent an expansion of the EPA's jurisdiction. I think it is a vast expansion of the EPA's jurisdiction.

I appreciate your employees out in Region 10; Dennis McClaren is doing a great job.

I think it is fair to say we will rise and fall together on this one because of the nature of this bird's range.

Well, I am not sure you would find anybody that really likes sequestration but somehow we find ourselves here, which is kind of bizarre.