"I certainly want to thank you for your attendance today. We appreciate your coming to our hearing."
"Being told to relocate from one's home and pull up one's own roots can be devastating to a family and to any community."
"Congress owes the Navajo and Hopi people the opportunity to bring closure to this issue."
"Will you commit to providing the committee with a quarterly status report from this point forward to see where we are at and where we are going?"
"These rains should have provided needed relief to drought-stricken communities in California, yet you are pumping less water than you did last year in a historic drought."
"Just as much of a crisis what is going in coal country right now is happening in my State of California."
"If it is information that potentially is being withheld, we need to know that."
"If those reports are being used to create a conclusion in order--which we are talking about, then those reports should be made public and made part of the information to provide it to the States."
"The President has used authority under the Antiquities Act 22 times since 2009 to bypass Congress and designate 40 million acres as national monuments."
"A number of groups have been urging the Administration to create this 2.5 million acre national monument in southeastern Oregon."
"Okay. We all know that failing to plan is the same as planning to fail."