The EJA was passed over a year ago.

Madam President, before the Senate moves to final passage of the America Invents Act of 2011, I wish to express my unequivocal support for this bill. This is not a perfect bill, but the fact is it is going to be a very important occasion…

Authorized funding for the EJA is $195 million per year for 4 years, but first time funding has yet to be appropriated.

Mr. President, our Nation's fiscal situation has reached a tipping point. The debt held by the public now exceeds $9 trillion. We are now in our third year of trillion dollar deficits. According to the Congressional Budget Office, by the…

I am going to have to interrupt both of you here on this. Time has expired.

Oh, great. That is the best answer I have heard today.

Thank goodness for that.

The Wildlands Order affecting BLM was wisely rejected, thank goodness.

This year the House has decided to take the budget problem seriously. We know major changes are needed, and we cannot meet the challenge with the 'business as usual' approach.

Locked up in the agencies you run is a vast amount of land with an abundant array of resources.

I want to thank you for appearing before this committee to present your agencies' budget requests.

Last month the House passed a continuing resolution for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 that would cut $100 billion from the President's request level.

Thank you very much.

I could pull that up.

Would you provide a copy of the communications between DOI and EPA on this issue?

This is, of course, a challenging time for the Federal budget, just as it is for family budgets and millions of Americans.

You are asking for an additional 15 million for NLCS. Is that directed at the office administration in Washington?

It would be possible in the future as you make those proposals to come to Congress; you could do that kind of analysis, right?