Dianne Feinstein

I was hoping you could go to 40,000 acres.

Funding for construction and maintenance of facilities, roads, and trails is cut by 21 percent for a total of $438 million.

I wanted to ask questions, if I may, regarding the Sunrise Powerlink in California. This is really a very big deal.

We know that forest management works if we do it. The question is to do enough of it.

I think that is right. I think you hit the nail on the head actually.

I am more concerned about a rational policy for protecting treasured landscapes as we move in appropriate ways to take advantage of renewable energy.

I do intend to follow that.

The President's request provides $5.38 billion for the USFS. That is an increase of $61 million, or 1 percent.

If we are going to get this done, we need to do it.

$26 million for 2011?

Despite the constraints reflected on this budget, there are a number of important programs that receive increases.

So the longer you guys hold it up, the less renewables we have in an area that is a heavy consumer of electricity.

California is still recovering from 3 years of drought, and the water situation is likely to remain critical, or near critical, for years to come.

JASON finds no evidence that accumulation of changes incurred from aging and LEPs' lifetime extension have increased risk to certification of today's deployed nuclear warheads.

I also appreciate President Obama's support for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a critical component of any U.S. nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Is that a yes, or a no?

The President has requested $11.2 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration, a 13.4 percent increase from fiscal year 2010.

Is that included in the $481 million----

There is the kind of information, on both sides, about what the other side does that gives true mutual deterrence some real credibility.

I stand ready to work with my colleagues and the administration to craft a sensible, bi-partisan nuclear weapons policy that will keep Americans safe and will reduce the danger of a nuclear war or a nuclear attack.

I have worked with colleagues in the House and Senate to stop the re-opening of the nuclear door and the development of new nuclear weapons.

My interest, on the military side, is really to see that we do not become proliferators.

So, it's--no, it does not include inertial fusion energy--an aggressive inertial fusion energy program right now.

So was fusion energy.

I couldn't believe that my country was proposing it.