"I disagree with you on that. We should vote smartly. We should put smart policy in place."
"H.R. 6180... would also amend the Indian Reorganization Act to confirm the Secretary's discretionary authority to place land into trust for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians."
"H.R. 1208... would amend the Indian Reorganization Act to clarify that the Secretary of the Interior has discretionary authority to place land into trust for any federally recognized tribe."
"At the end of the day, there is no reason to oppose the Carcieri fix legislation."
"We are here to look at two different bills, really two different approaches that would amend the Indian Reorganization Act."
"If you start with bad data, you are going to get bad results, no matter how well you do in between."
"The lease must end, and it will in January."
"this process of leasing national park land for a migrant camp circumvented the rules for political purposes."
"we made some really bad decisions three or four decades ago that are really costing us on the backside right now."
"the policy hasn't worked to save the spotted owl, and we can, in hindsight, decades and decades later, look back and say this was a weaponized rule just to stop management on the forests."
"if we don't have roads, we end up spending a lot of money with tankers dropping fire retardants."