Thomas McClintock actually said...

"Are we seeing an adversarial relationship begin to develop between this Government and the people, and particularly between the U.S. Forest Service and the users of our public lands?"

"While you unfortunately chose not to attend, it is your agency's responsibility to provide the Administration's views on H.R. 3176."

"We must stop fiddling while Rome burns. The answers we need for this hearing demand that the government be reopened."

"So hopefully we won't move forward until we have an opportunity with a restored government to have the Forest Service come in and explain its new directive and see if that doesn't do what we think it ..."