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This heavily impacts both Senator Manchin and I, from West Virginia, heavily impacts our state.

If we are going to be going after a balanced energy policy, this will have great impacts on my state.

I am sure that if there's anyone here that can meet that task it is Secretary Jewell because of her great love of the National Park system.

I support our efforts to get legislation in and was happy to introduce the initiative by the Administration.

I want to thank the Bureau of Reclamation for being such great partners on a plan that, I think, is a model for the rest of the nation in watershed management.

I am particularly pleased to see the proposals throughout the budget to foster climate change resilience in these areas.

I strongly support the President's budget proposal to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at its authorized level of $900 million.

It kind of begs the question, why are we pushing to acquire more land when it is obvious that we have a great need, a great demand, to care for the lands that we have.

You are advancing full funding for LWCF without any offset and without reforms.

The Administration continues to ignore budget realities and propose billions in mandatory spending including for proposals that have been rejected in the past.

You rejected the lifesaving road for this remote community. At that time you promised that you were going to find some way to help the local residents.

It is the height of double standards that the Government would be allowed to basically take a pass in terms of clean-up.

For 10 less aircraft, we could put 650 special ops people on the frontlines right now.

Conceptually, if we traded in 10 jets, just 10, we could increase the size of our special forces community by over 650.

Yesterday, it was announced that we are sending 250 special operations forces to Syria.

I consider the F-35 as an investment in the future.

I understand that it costs us approximately $1 million to $1.5 million to train one special operator.

I do not know why any of us do not pay attention to GAO, but why the Department of Defense does not makes no sense at all.