Marijuana is not currently regulated by the FDA. Medical marijuana is not.

For whatever it is worth, it is my position that any change has to have retroactive consideration.

Well, what would be the eligibility of people in prison for immediate parole, assuming there was retroactivity and the 1:1 standard was in place?

If confirmed, will you please be an advocate for getting decisions out of the Justice Department?

the ability to move soundly, aggressively, and legally to prevent the movement of drugs, and also prevent the movement of guns from America down to the cartels is very important

I have been a cosponsor with Senator Hatch on changing the formula to 20:1. My interest in coming here this morning is to try and see what the appropriate change should be.

Philosophically, I agree with what the administration has said.

None of those other States have lost. Only California has lost. And something is not right.

I see California in a lose-lose-lose position in terms of money.

I think, I must tell you, is grossly unfair and unacceptable.

That is absolutely unacceptable.

I will ask my staff to do it so that I get a clear picture.

I wish this were California wine.

Thank you for your leadership and support for the geosciences.

As you deliberate appropriate funding levels for these USGS programs, please consider the important public policy implications these choices entail.

As of April 1, a CAL FIRE rank-and-file firefighter earned $64,760, nearly 15 percent more than a comparable Forest Service firefighter.

I wonder if just having ATF, which has always had, in my view at least, a restricted role, is enough to stop this.

I can tell you it is out there, it is a problem.

I would appreciate if you would look at that. This is a very unusual situation, it seems to me, and a horrible one.

I think we have the strategy right. We're resourcing it right.

The more we do that, the more we back up, and it hurts our strategy.

We have extraordinarily serious concern involving the waste of many, many dollars over a period of years...

I know you're making changes and maybe they work and maybe they don't work.

I think the benchmarks are important and I think making an evaluation a year from now of where we are is important.

I'm too familiar with the Soviets having had 110,000 troops there and still losing.