There is nothing fair or equitable about this budget request.

One of the first acts as EPA Administrator was to revoke the food tolerances for chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage and to worker and bystander poisonings.

I will certainly push my colleagues to do so again this year.

I know you dismiss the problem of climate change, but these programs are about the air we breathe and having clean air.

Is it your position that EPA has no role in regulating methane pollution?

I am pleased that this administration recognizes the problem, and look forward to working with the Forest Service and the Office of Management and Budget to address this issue during this budget cycle in a fiscally responsible and…

We urge Congress to increase Federal funding for Indian education programs.

I would be less than honest with you if I did not tell you that this budget was a wreck.

I am incredibly concerned by this budget's failure to adequately fund firefighting.

I am very disappointed, Chief Tidwell, that the President's budget makes no attempt to provide supplemental funds to shore up the 10-year average or to address the longer term structural problems with the wildland firefighting budget.

I was pleased that this request includes $5 million to support the design for a new facility in Alamo, New Mexico.

I think if you go to Tribes and ask them to grade the Federal Government on consultation I think they would uniformly come out with an F on things.

So they do have a full leadership team?

The SRS is critical there, of course, because the Federal Government does not pay taxes.

We need to do better and I think this subcommittee will do better when it comes time to write our appropriations bills.

The Forest Legacy Program, part of the LWCF, has also been incredibly successful in the 25 years it has existed, thanks largely to the work of our Vice Chairman, Senator Leahy.

I understand you have launched a pilot program called 'Valuing People and Places,' and that you have been doing work on that in New Mexico.

I would like to confirm, Chief Tidwell, that you will continue the long-standing practice of responding to the written questions.