Doug LaMalfa: “I am pleased the committee and Chairman Hastings are taking leadership on this issue and look forward to moving this…”

The tradition of buffalo is very strong in New Mexico, so I am glad to see this legislation before us once again.

But it shouldn't require you having to come hat in hand to this place and ask a Congress Member to run a bill so you can purchase a piece of land that might be surplus already to the government.

Farmers like the current conservation programs that are out there, EQIP and the others, but this new one here is going to require them to jump through hoops in order to maybe be competitive or not.

I supported Prop 1, and I am extremely opposed to the continued destruction of Klamath dams.