The diligence of your office and our other partners in Interior and Homeland Security has been pretty amazing and appreciated.

We need to dramatically change how we manage forests in California and the western states and across the country.

As Rep. LaMalfa noted during the hearing, freight rail moves one ton of freight 479 miles on one gallon of diesel fuel.

OK. You promised to move more quickly on the permits, but what about the concept that the permit wasn't needed to begin with under exemptions clearly spelled out in the Clean Water Act and reinterpretations done by some divisions of the…

So what I am asking you, sir, is will the Army Corps and EPA work with the other land management agencies to make their jurisdictional determinations so that land users have some idea where to direct their issues when someone suddenly…

I appreciate that. Check it out in northern California, via Sacramento, the Redding office, and there is a lot of action happening in Tehama County.

It is a simple bill that would clarify the current grave marker benefit to ensure that the families, especially spouses of veterans, can be added to their gravestones.

This bill will impact nearly 21 million people, our veterans, and their families.

I am sure nobody on this panel thinks that Puerto Rico is a property, or the people are.

Do you think this law has adequate enforcement in that area of illegal marijuana cultivation?

The illegal production of marijuana, which is a non-native and invasive species, how much extra work does that make for those that are charged with enforcing the Lacey Act?

NEPA has been a source for a lot of frustration for anybody trying to do a project.