Usually the 'one size fits all' approach to regulations does not work for my State.
An interpretation that goes a different way could really be a showstopper for us.
This rule could dramatically expand the lands subject to regulation.
I am going to yield to my colleague who also has to go chair another Appropriations Committee hearing.
But if we have a process that does not allow for certainty along the way, it is pretty difficult to entice anybody to co...
I am troubled to see this proposal, very troubled.
This was just yet one more example of how folks in Washington, DC, do not get us.
But we have not seen any permits. We have not seen any application.
In many parts of Alaska, we continue to live in third world conditions.
And again, a preemptive veto is--this would be first ever.
How are we going to get to the numbers that you are talking about? I mean, are they just numbers on paper?