"Today we are back in business, thanks to this administration and the promise and the commitment that you made to the coal miners of West Virginia."
"I am pledging to work with you to ensure that the Department of the Interior has the necessary funding."
"I am concerned that there are cuts across the Park Service and particularly in the area of Fish and Wildlife."
"the quickest way to destroy the human race is to destroy the bees"
"Clean air remains critically important to me and to my constituents in California."
"Before we begin, I want to take a moment and announce that yesterday the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted to provide additional funds to build the Cal WaterFix."
"There may be conflict in the West, but in our neck of the woods, Mr. Secretary, we hold the people who work for the Department of the Interior in high regard."
"All members of our congressional delegation have opposed, historically, for the last 20 or 30 years, offshore drilling."
"This budget is unacceptable."
"Ohio and Michigan have to replant 20 million trees."
"it would be a shame to bring imports from Canada for timber in these disasters, we have plenty of timber here in the United States."