Jim Risch

I hope the agency will go forward in that respect.

I think we're all coming together better on the fact that we can do better.

The Forest Service needs to step it up. If you step it up you'll get rid of the fuel.

I hope the Federal Government will be a good neighbor and will do as well as the State is on their grounds on stopping fires.

I can tell you they are ready.

How about one program with a very smart person heading that program? That is what we do in the private sector.

You know, on a short-term basis, what she is talking about is really, really critical to this country.

This stuff is not rocket science. When I became governor, we had the same problem in Idaho. I built two nursing schools and paid the teachers more and all of the sudden the nursing shortage went away.

You know, I just found a way to employ another almost 100,000 people.

The complaint I get most of all at home is the strings that the Federal Government attaches whenever money comes.

Interesting. Thank you.

This issue is not a new issue, and we are so glad to have somebody from Micron Technology here.

the states know how to spend this money better than the Federal Government does.

We have realized that in Idaho a long time ago. We have between the State and our businesses in Idaho we have a strong, strong working partnership.

But that is true in most pursuits.

The problem was exactly the same way. When I became governor, we had 800 empty positions for nurses; and the people who were in our nursing schools were exactly the kind of people we were trying to help.

this is the one shot we have got because when this bill was drafted, my experience, I did almost 30 years in our State senate, and as with every law, what you just talked about the law of unintended consequences comes back and bites us…

When this thing is enacted, I absolutely guarantee you there is going to be problems with it;

Can employers say, I do not want to mess with this. You are fired?

No harm-no foul should be the law.

And a passport would cure all ills.

If this thing kicks back and says that you are not qualified to work, as far as I am concerned, I think that is the end of it for the employer.

You said, and that confirms what you said and that is that 80 percent of them do not even contact you to straighten it out, am I right on that, 80 percent of the kickbacks?

What we draw up here, in our minds everything is neat and clean and orderly. But when the bureaucracy gets a hold of it, they start writing rules and regulations that we do not have any control over and it just becomes a nightmare for…

My experience over many, many years is I have very, very little confidence in the Federal Government to do just about anything.