Mike Simpson

You can do it a lot safer and a lot more environmentally friendly, as I have talked with some mining companies.

There is also a bipartisan bill that I am the lead cosponsor of called the REPLANT Act that been reintroduced in the House.

I am not for closing the doors to the courthouse, but we have to have some action against serial litigators.

We have worked in a bipartisan fashion, regardless of the chairman, over the last--as long as I have been on this committee now I guess for 20 years, 21 years.

I look forward to working with you on this and many other issues that come before the EPA.

I look forward to working with you on this.

But one of the really important aspects of it, to me, was addressing the backlog of maintenance that we have in our national parks.

I would invite you to visit the Great Lakes of Idaho.

As I understand it, RVs are the number-one-selling item in terms of vehicles and stuff, because people have decided that they want to see America again.

Everybody knows, that has been to our national parks, knows that we love them to death.

As you know, a lot of people look at the Great American Outdoors Act as just funding the LWCF on a permanent basis and full funding for it.

Every administration, whether it is Republican or Democrat, always comes back with a budget request for the Army Corps of Engineers that is below the level of the year before.

I would like to say thank you to Congressman Foster for his work on the importance of research at our national laboratories all across the country.

We must begin new feasibility studies for both Cave Buttes Dam and the McMicken Dam to allow the Corps to evaluate flood risk management needs and safety modifications.

I think it is important that we hear from them in person.

It is heartless, it is unconscionability, and I believe it is absolutely wrong.

These unilateral approaches by President Biden and his administration are simply, in my view, unconscionable in the face of a global pandemic.

This subcommittee on a bipartisan basis places high priority on fulfilling the Federal Government's Tribal trust responsibility.

We need to get this before the authorizing committee so that they can actually address this and allow, as you say in your thing in the Biden administration says build back better.

I will tell you as former chairman of the Interior Subcommittee... you mean you could only rebuild it to the--to the state that just got destroyed by the hurricane?

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, I look forward to exploring these topics with our witnesses, and I thank you for calling this hearing.

It is not a technology issue; it is a political issue. That is what it comes down to now.

President Biden has said that advancing a clean energy future and addressing climate change will be a strong focus of this administration.

Is it a smart idea to unilaterally eliminate existing jobs simply because they happen to be in an industry that many of my Democrat friends find unfashionable?

I appreciate that, because one of my--as I said, I don't think anybody disagrees that we need to increase our investment in all of these renewable energies and clean energy and that type of thing.