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It was done through a process that's very much different than the way we do these things today.

The effort to protect these ancient lands is citizen driven and buttressed, by the support of groups representing over 100,000 South Dakotans.

These are national lands, held in trust by the federal government, and while many of us who live in Idaho think of these lands as our own, these are America's lands.

This bill releases four wilderness study areas that are currently wilderness study areas, treated as de facto wilderness.

I've been working on for some 10 years since I got into Congress.

Like you, Mr. Chairman, I believe that public land management issues require locally based, collaborative efforts in order to find true, sustainable, solutions to the many challenges we face.

Congressman Simpson deserves a tremendous amount of gratitude of the people of the State of Idaho.

The one, of course, most interest to me is S. 3294 which is the CIEDRA, what we call in Idaho the CIEDRA bill.

I thank Senator Wyden for holding today's hearing and the opportunity to consider landmark legislation protecting America's Great Plains grasslands.

I think those were regrettable statements.

Our policy on Hezbollah remains unchanged. Hezbollah, in its entirety, is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and we have no contact with the group or any of its members.

If the support to Lebanon's Army is not going to secure Lebanon's borders... one might reasonably ask what it is going for.

I want to thank both of you for that analysis.

Israel is going to make its own decisions based on its own sovereign interests.

The time has come... to reassess our relationship with Lebanon and the challenges posed by Hezbollah.

We all know that the state of Israel has been firm in its determination to defend itself and, as such, will act when provoked to take military action.

The United States stands with Israel's right to defend itself.

I don't doubt Senator Wyden's intent to make the best of a bad situation.