09/09/2013
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"It is a significant hearing in that wilderness has been a bad word in the discussion before this Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, and it is refreshing and certainly a breath of fresh air..."
"This labeled rhetoric and gross mischaracterization has made legitimate discussion of wilderness proposals difficult."
"If programs like PILT and Secure Rural Schools are truly vital to our rural communities throughout the West, then we must find ways to fully fund them."
"Some units of local governments that are already fairly well off receive large PILT payments while some areas that have very limited resources do not receive as much."