PILT serves to compensate partially for this foregone revenue, and the program's resources are employed to provide essential community services like road maintenance and emergency responders.

Experience in the outdoor recreation industry is increasingly important for managing the millions of acres of public land.

If we do not do something about this, we are going to drastically fail to invest in the future of this country.

The longer we delay this, the harder it is going to be to solve.

I think what we have engaged in is the lowest common denominator partisan politics. It is putting our children in an incredibly precarious position.

Actually, I do think if we were able, tomorrow, to say we have reached a broad-based bipartisan agreement that is balanced on the revenue side and on the spending side, that we would be shocked at how fast the $2 trillion that is sitting…

We have to find a way to come together.

I hope you are wrong, because----

Thank you for doing it.

I wonder, Dr. Glauber, if you would like to talk briefly about the value of the USDA Conservation Programs for keeping our soils healthy.

Thank you for the emergency grazing.