"It is my hope that these funds will help prevent the service from borrowing from other programs to pay for firefighting needs this year."
"I think this budget is a good first step toward meeting the needs of our national forests."
"The new administration recognizes that firefighting costs are likely to exceed the 10-year fire suppression average and has submitted a budget that reflects that reality."
"I think this is a very good budget."
"I just want to say I very much welcome your oversight and trying to push people."
"I would like to ask one last question on a subject that I have had a good deal of conversation with of your forest supervisors, and that is the Quincy Library Group, which has been a very frustrating ..."
"I would like to express my appreciation that the President has requested $200 million in supplemental firefighting funds for the Forest Service before the fire season begins in earnest."
"I'm going to fight for this land to be protected. And I think that size is a factor, and you just can't come in and build 15 miles square facilities with huge steam plants."
"I began to look, and I talked to Southern California Edison, 'What's your largest solar project? 50 megawatts.'"
"I authored the Desert Protection Act in southern California."
"Should we not cap the size of these things?"