You need to grow your way out of a deficit, and this research investment pays.

I think one of the most important lessons is the importance of continued investment in research.

If we want to grow businesses, create jobs, and increase incomes, we need to make sure America is built to compete.

We spend a billion dollars a day and we take hard-earned American dollars and we send them overseas.

It launches an important forest and watershed restoration program.

the bill protects some of Montana's wildest back country areas as wilderness.

I can't see why Congress wouldn't want to give the agency the full backing of what the American people to say, we want you to go do good work, go forth and do good work creating jobs and restoring our National Forests because the status…

ambitious, but sustainable and achievable.

It sets aside some lands for recreation.

I'm proud of their work.

This bill closes fewer than 50 miles of them.

I want to again thank Senator Wyden for his leadership and strong commitment to Oregon's national forests.