I hope we are able to reconcile that. Let us know if we can be helpful.

By failing to properly certify and test wood heater emissions the EPA has frustrated Congress' investments and intended goals.

They need you to be a warrior for them.

I hope that we can even find greater areas of how we can be working together to grow Alaska's role in our nation's economy or energy or mineral security, while also cherishing and protecting our lands, our people, and our culture.

I believe the Agency is engaging in regulatory overreach with WOTUS, which the Senate has expressed its disapproval on.

it is inconceivable to me; I mean when you talk about 1.6 million acres of a beetle kill, seems to me that our communities would be eligible for more than one of these Community Grant Programs.

We want to put that into just nothing more than bad memories.

We can't be in a situation where we have got an impasse like this; would you agree?

I hope we are able to reconcile that. Let us know if we can be helpful.

I think that we can make a real difference for the State of Alaska, and we can make a real difference across the country.

I think we recognize that there is so much, so much that has to be done in this area.

I have long said that I do not believe that we have to choose between a healthy forest and a healthy economy.

I believe the Agency is engaging in regulatory overreach with WOTUS, which the Senate has expressed its disapproval on.

How do you respond, though, to just the reality that that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) creates a rural priority for subsistence based on where one lives.

it is inconceivable to me; I mean when you talk about 1.6 million acres of a beetle kill, seems to me that our communities would be eligible for more than one of these Community Grant Programs.

I thought that we were going to be a little more competitive, perhaps, in the Community Wildfire Defense Program Grant.

Ensuring adequate funding for PL280 states to address the inequities among Tribal courts remains a top concern of mine.

GLRI funds have been effectively deployed to protect safe clean drinking water supplies, clean up toxic sites, protect wetlands and shorelines, hold off invasive species from entering the Great Lakes, and safeguard aquatic resources.

A lack of promises made and promises unfulfilled. A little bit of a pulling the rug out from underneath us.

I think it has to be done at whatever expense necessary.

By failing to properly certify and test wood heater emissions the EPA has frustrated Congress' investments and intended goals.

To me, as an Alaskan, from a State that has extraordinary natural gas reserves, the fact that we would even be uttering these words is almost inconceivable to me.

Okay. So maybe you can work with us on some of this TA that we are looking for?

As you well know we have a public safety issue in the State of Alaska, some have described it as a crisis.

I think that we can make a real difference for the State of Alaska, and we can make a real difference across the country.