I think that oversight role is important. And I worry that we might lose some aspect of that oversight with this expansion that we're talking about.

When you're to provide for a level of tourism, when you can't take the tourists who are coming off the cruise ship out to do a quick floatplane trip, land in one of the lakes in Misty Fjords or Traitors Cove, it's kind of tough.

I do support the agency's many programs that deal with recreation and with wildlife.

I just can't go back to the superintendent of the schools in Wrangell, Alaska, because for him, these few thousands of dollars mean everything to him and his budget.

I believe that this situation teaches a larger lesson about the failures of the agency's current forest management policy.

This is in regards to continuing discussions regarding the Forest Service's potential acquisition of Shee Atika Incorporated's lands at Cube Cove on Admiralty Island.

I have questioned that at a time where budgets are very, very tight, we would be purchasing more land when we're not able to adequately care for, maintain, provide the resources for what it is that we have.

I hope today that you can give me a reason to believe that we're not going to be sitting here again next year.

I want to be clear. I do support the agency's many programs that deal with recreation and with wildlife.

I think that this decision by the agency represents the latest in a long line of misguided Forest Service actions that have had a crippling impact on Southeast Alaska.

If the State of Alaska and Alabama and Wyoming refuse to pay, as the Governor's letter certainly suggests, I mean, what do you do?

I would certainly hope that at a bare minimum there is no effort to collect late fees and penalties.

When you say 'less,' would you agree that it was 21 million board-feet last year?

Mr. President, I rise to present two amendments I have filed on this farm bill, and I will be pushing hard for votes on them right now. I hope these get a full and extensive debate and a vote. They are relevant and related to the farm bill…

We ought to be focused more on patient management and relate to individuals.

I think we have got some great ideas for how, if we make the right investments, we can get better outcomes at lower costs.

I really appreciate your having this hearing.

Of course, this is, in my view, one of the best parts about the Affordable Care Act--is to close the donut hole so that we get more people filling their prescriptions.