It is interesting, the whole spectrum of this debate here, where as was mentioned $150 million studying Sites Reservoir.

I am pleased the committee and Chairman Hastings are taking leadership on this issue and look forward to moving this measure forward.

Congress has not provided victims of Federal bullying a legal recourse to seek a remedy for damages.

Government agencies, through individual and collective efforts, are actively using land designations and restrictions, prompted mainly by radical environmental groups, to curtail multiple use on Federal lands.

the cost of the Federal Government is in the multi, multi millions. And that is why it is imperative that these lands be transferred from the Federal Government to the states so that we can survive.

Congressional oversight and legislative solutions are necessary to provide an effective check on Federal officials who abuse their regulatory powers.

the captain of the ship goes with the ship, and if the ship goes down, the captain goes down with the ship.

I represent far Northern California, very large district with a very significant veterans' population who have been very frustrated.

Whatever it is, that's a huge number.

Can we count on your advocacy to say, 'Look, don't stop these harvest activities and other things that we need to be doing in the forest; they don't really have anything to do with the fungus'?

So it really needs to be looked at that way, and get to the right size population on the horse population.

If we are doing more of this, we are having a lot more effect, plus positive timber receipts at the same time.