The whole budget is $4 trillion. The part that is out of control is the mandatory spending.

Thank you. Chief, you might notice that we did not take a break at 10:30 for a vote. It has been moved to this afternoon, which is good for us, maybe bad for you.

Let me ask you about the sales prep. You know that we continue to receive complaints from the industry...

I think that will be key because if you are the individual, if you're the community, you don't care which department, which agency, has the responsibility, what you care is that it gets addressed.

I strongly support such as opening of the '1002 area' of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for energy development.

I do support and remain supportive of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

We lost lives. It destroyed half the economy of Gatlinburg and we would like your assistance in learning the lessons that we need to learn in order to avoid something like that happening again.

I am asking, I think, a very fair and legitimate question.

the roadless rule is, as you know, just an extraordinary barrier to us in so many different ways, and exactly the reason why we need to roll that back within Alaska.

Unfortunately, the budget proposal does not include funds in fiscal year 2018.

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.

We are all about efficiency and making sure things work. I look at it, and call me a skeptic now, but if you can demonstrate this actually does get us to the place that you have outlined here, efficiencies are good.

If it is not a new project and you recognize it as something that has been committed to, how can we prioritize this so that we complete this land acquisition as was laid out over 2 years ago now?

It is wholly insufficient to effectively serve communities in dire need of healthcare services.

We thank Congress so much for the $11 million for Tribal health clinic leases in the fiscal year 2017 Consolidated Appropriations bill.

The experience is people are dying in these facilities.

Dear Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Udall:

The idea was to take an environmental burden and turn it into environmental benefit.

What are you doing to improve that sales planning and to solve the appraisal issues that we are dealing with?

I am really concerned with the situation that has been clearly articulated in the fiscal year 2017 budget.

We are not getting mad at you as an individual. There is anger. There is frustration, and rightly so, because as a government, as an agency, we are failing these people.

What would happen is Contract Support Costs would be short-changed, short-funded, and years of litigation, lots of money spent on good lawyers to argue that case.

I think what's important with respect to this issue is the lack of clarity that the previous rule, the 2015 rule, created.

I appreciate your time here today.

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.