"It is just a great example of common-sense legislating that cuts through the partisan divide."
"Thank you, Mr. Smith, for both your written testimony and your oral testimony."
"Roughly half of my congressional district, which is larger than nine states, is Federal land."
"I am grateful to you and to the work that the Forest Service is doing and has done over the course of the last several years."
"I think it is a common-sense bill, and my hope would be that we can move that quickly through the Committee."
"I wonder if you might be able to, I suspect you are aware of this, and if you could provide maybe the Committee some clarity on that front."
"We have been fighting here in Congress, myself and several others, to try to get wildland firefighters paid a decent wage, the wage that they deserve."
"When our forests burn in Montana, it is not just Montana that suffers, it is the smoke that travels across the country and harms all of us."
"I think the bill makes a lot of sense, and I am hoping that we can get it done in short order."
"I am a large proponent of expanding tools like Good Neighbor Authority or promoting root and stem projects, which Representative Newhouse's legislation would authorize."
"Our broken and lengthy NEPA permitting regime should not be an excuse as to why we are not taking part in proper forest management."
"Immigrants make our country better."