The bill requires the government to publish all science underpinning ESA determinations and the costs imposed.

Obviously, PROMESA has not lived up to any of its promises.

What is the cheapest way to produce electricity in this market, and why are we making a political decision and not an economic decision?

But we didn't do that. We bumbled into the middle of it, came up with this jerry-rigged system, and it hasn't worked.

I have been looking forward to this hearing, because it cuts to the core of the issues confronting our forests and the U.S. Forest Service under its new Interim Chief, Vicki Christiansen.

I cannot thank her enough for that conspicuous commitment and for her no-nonsense approach to our forest issues.

The sooner these steps are taken and the more aggressively they are implemented, the quicker we will turn the tide on the self-induced environmental malfeasance.

Active forest management produces healthy forests, with the byproduct of revenues generated for the Treasury.

The ball is in the Forest Service's court--Congress has provided budget authority and management options.

Our objectives are to restore public access to the public lands, restore good management to the public lands, and to restore the Federal Government as a good neighbor to those communities impacted by the public lands.

The Forest Service once generated funds for the Federal Treasury through the sale of excess timber.