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Somebody has got too much money.

Providing content-rich educational materials on line and connecting with rural communities through traveling exhibitions are worthwhile endeavors that I fully support.

The two health care bills, the one the President has already signed into law plus this one we are considering will spend another $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years. In order to pay for it, one of the things that these bills include is…

It is the clear intent of the Senate for the FAA to halt its consolidation of the Boise TRACON until after the new board completes its recommendations for realignment.

I completely agree with the distinguished senior Senator from Idaho, and I associate myself with his statements fully. Senator Crapo and I want to confirm with the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee that section…

Due to the lack of resources to provide deterrents and lack of public safety, many of our people over the past few generations have turned to gangs, drugs, crime, alcohol, all of the social ills that can affect the community in the worst…

We were not asking for something that was extravagant but adequate.

His words were that it was deplorable conditions, and these need to be changed.

Mr. Simpson has had the opportunity to come to our reservation. He just lives next door.

But conceptually it is a good idea.

You mentioned the jail facility you have. I never realized before until we started having all the testimony, that there are many tribes in the Pacific Northwest in the Puget Sound area, and I suspect a lot of them have the same issue with…

We need to get this done.

You are right. It ought to be a program.

With our new justice center we are hoping to turn things around.

But Ms. Kassen would affirm that when you are talking about 1 CFS up in the Upper Salmon stretches or the Little Lost or the Big Lost, that is a critical piece of habitat for fish.

I want to thank TU for your work in Idaho. I am quite familiar with it, and the description you had in your testimony about working from the bottom up, as opposed to the top down, is one that the U.S. Government could take an example from.

Allocation decisions and recommendations on all water resources projects and their management should be a state decision.

I appreciate the attempt to find some common ground, but I am telling you, it is a whole different deal.