There are places in the canyon, like Orphan Mine, that the government has refused to reclaim.

Is it my understanding you are not speaking on behalf of NACO today but only as Coconino County?

Yes, the Administration should be here to answer why they did what they did, and what the rationale is for doing it, but they are not here.

We meet today in a hearing that may actually be a moot issue, which is legal talk for useless.

Thank you Madam Chairwoman and Ranking Member McClintock for holding this hearing on H.R. 2265, The Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act of 2009.

I want to thank Representative Jim Matheson for introducing this bill on behalf of the Uintah Water Conservancy District.

Nothing less than our liberty is at stake. Must judges set aside or may judges consider their personal feelings in deciding cases? Is judicial impartiality a duty or an option?

I do appreciate it, and I appreciate the work that you've put into this effort.

I, like most people in this country, am in favor of preserving traditional marriage.

No, but they can decide what is right and wrong.

The law is that competition, and not a group of self-designated competitors who should be competing, makes the rules.

These disadvantages are not the result of fair competition, but of the inherent structural inequities of the BCS system.

The BCS continues to place nearly half of all the schools in college football at a competitive and, perhaps more importantly, a financial disadvantage.

I believe there are real antitrust issues here that are not going to be solved unless the folks at BCS start to work to resolve these matters.

We are sick of it, to be honest with you.

I believe it will address a number of important issues, not the least of which is the legality of the Bowl Championship Series.

Is it fair to pick teams when you do not even go and see--when the criteria does not require you to even go and see a game?

Well, so would it not be safe to say that a reasonable case can be made under both the per se and rule-of-reason analysis that there is a violation here?