Mike Simpson actually said...

"It does not solve the long-term problem that we need to fix, and if you do transfers this year, that will be a problem in trying to convince other people there is a fix-borrowing issue."

"Let me tell you why people live in Idaho. They live in Idaho because they love their public lands."

"I would hope that the Department would support what this committee has been trying to do, and that is implement the Fish and Wildlife's decision on wolves in the Great Lakes and Wyoming."

"I just want to say thank you in your role as chairman of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee for the additional drought funding for the Bureau of Reclamation."