"The logging community, which has never had a handout or a hand up, so to speak, by the federal government is only going to get about $200 million nationwide."
"Congressman Stauber's district had a mill announce a closure about 15 months ago directly related to the impacts of the drop and demand for paper products."
"If we just dedicate it as a set aside and then never touch it, once again, you're going to have the same problem we have in a lot of the forested areas."
"Last month, 27 of us sent a letter to TSA and CDC about their decision to renew the mandate through September 13."
"I appreciate our ability to work on these issues together in a bipartisan way, in a productive way."
"As I said, if Congress would bless the idea of preplanning the salvage so that resalvage outside of wilderness and roadless can go forward in an expedited fashion, that would enable us to get the fibe..."
"We have to have everything on the table as far as the private-sector helping with our Federal lands."
"We have a situation in the far north part of my district."
"We want farming the basin to continue, but we have to set up a much faster process to get the aid out."
"I appreciate being able to sit in on the committee today, on this extremely important topic towards [inaudible] I think, especially for California and California agriculture."
"Our markets are pretty open to foreign imports, but we don't seem to have the same level of enforcement."
"If we can't require them to take our items back on export, then what is the best way to stop this unfair situation?"