So I look forward to our hearing today, and I look forward to listening to our witness panel on ways we can protect our country and, of course, perfect our legislation.

We import the 92 percent of the uranium that we use in this country. I understand about 25 percent of that comes from Russia?

if you would write that guarantee in your bill, it might be a better bill, obviously.

Categorical exclusion is part of NEPA.

I hope you recognize that when you go after that water in central and eastern Nevada you leave western Utah alone.

would wind or solar farms harm or have a greater impact on elk than mining?

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.

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.

Not only was the letter ignored, but there were no answers to any of those questions given before his unilateral action.

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

So the good supervisor will still get her tourism dollars going into that area.

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.

Well, you know it is unfair.