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Well, first of all, I cannot tell you how delighted I am to hear an agency say, we do the best we can with what we have.

A good example of that is Obamacare. You know, that was an almost 3000-page bill. It was given to us about 30 minutes before we voted on it.

You have got to help me on this Obamacare.

Small businesses all over the country are trying to find a way to get out from under this healthcare burden.

They are trying to get away from this. They are trying to get around it. They are not embracing this.

I say I did not vote for this. No Republican in this institution voted for this.

It is unfortunate that we are having a hearing on a budget that we all know will never become law.

When Senator Murkowski says the 2 magical words, multiple use, that's what the West wants.

Year after year this work has been underfunded. It's absolutely key to reduce the severity of forest fires.

I'm also pleased to see that this year's budget request includes funding for new air tankers.

The Army is concerned with the growing demand on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competencies, the global competitiveness for STEM talent, and the unbalanced representation of our nation's demographics in STEM…

The expansion of the Section 219 authority that included minor military construction as one of the acceptable categories of use has allowed the laboratories to fund 27 projects related to their core competencies across six laboratories.

The Army has a concerted effort in support of historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions HBCU/MSIs.

We have been investing in technologies to do affordable missiles that can go out and intercept RAMs.

The EPA has become synonymous with overly burdensome regulation, bureaucratic paralysis and economic decline.

To individuals, the EPA is often associated with loss of property rights, constraint of Federal freedoms and an ever-increasing financial burden to comply with rules promulgated by faraway officials on local communities.

To be sure, there is not an agency that I hear more about from Idahoans in a negative way than the EPA.

Unfortunately, there are too many examples of Federal regulations that make it harder to do business and maintain jobs while providing little benefit to their intended purposes.