But the truth is that we were told that it just flat could not be done and now we are told it can be done.

I am very concerned, being somebody from rural America, and quite frankly, you understand rural America, the impacts of this budget.

The Indian Health Service just continues to underperform. The consequences continue to negatively impact the quality of care, with sometimes devastating consequences.

One of the best things that transpired for Native Americans is Medicaid expansion because it freed up some money for IHS.

We have got more cattle than we have got people in Montana.

You understand that we pay more money for health care for prisoners and our prison system than we do for folks in Indian Country?

I think that we need to have profitable community banks.

I will tell you they will sell out to the big guys, to one of the five big ones, and then I guarantee you those communities will not have branches because they will close them down the same way Steve has had to with four of his branches.

I think it is very critical that we address this issue of regulation

It is crucial that Congress gets this done.

I thank Chairman Isakson. Before I answer the question, I want to echo and say thank you very much for your leadership on this committee. It has been great to work with you. You have a reputation of being a man of honesty, integrity, and…

There is a lot of misinformation about this bill. I will tell you what this bill does not do. It does not trample on workers' rights. This bill maintains bargaining rights of union workers at the VA. One of the problems we had with the…

I sure can. I talked previously about this. It has been a while. It has been 3 years. We talked about this accountability issue a lot in the Veterans' Affairs Committee and here on the floor. I think the context is important for folks who…

You need to tell us I do not have the money for road maintenance because we are spending it all on fighting fires.

I am going to tell you there is a move in this country to sell our public lands, to privatize our public lands.

I want to voice my concern with the budget proposed cuts that are to recreation and road development, the latter of which are important to carrying out forest projects.

My concern with this budget... it just gives more ammunition to those short-sighted people out there that want to turn our land over to the private sector.

I think we ought to just admit that the fire seasons are getting more intense. They are getting longer.