"I am sure this is going to be a fascinating--another series of ongoing hearings, first on climate change."
"Much of the legislation that we want to see passed this year has been held up because of this insistent threat that we have to fully fund LWCF."
"Mr. Westerman has a bill that actually is a common-sense solution that you can solve carbon, either by limiting how much goes into the air, or trying to pull it out of the air."
"I am saying if we are going to do accounting, I think we should take that into the equation because it is all part of the carbon cycle."
"I think that the bill is shortsighted in that it only looks at one side of the ledger."
"We oftentimes have regulations that prevent any kind of management or work on the forests, which exacerbates the cycle of seeing these forests go up in flames."
"I am very concerned about the environment and how we are good stewards of that."
"The Corps of Engineers constructs projects critical to the Nation for the purposes of navigation, flood control, shoreline protection, hydroelectric power, recreation, environmental protection, restor..."
"We too look forward to working towards a successful 2020 WRDA. We look forward to working with you and working for our country to do legislation that is vitally important to the infrastructure of our ..."
"It's a simple formula: if we want more trees, we should all be using more products made from trees."
"I'm a forester, and I'm committed to using Federal resources to steward our nation's forests in the best possible way."