05/24/2011
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"Quite honestly, we get tired of these decade long battles."
"You're going to hear a lot of questions I think this morning about prioritization and the fact that a budget that comes out is effectively a prioritization of what is important."
"So it is tough for me to accept a 34 percent reduction to the Department's programs that issues conveyances to those who have waited so long to get title to their lands."
"And you had mentioned in your comments just here your commitment to ensuring that we have clean lands and a level of enforcement for those that would degrade the quality of our lands."