Mike Simpson

I urge the subcommittee to provide the Bureau the resources necessary to fulfill this critical commitment.

There has to be opportunity for people to continue to make a living in the meantime, and these jobs are being ripped away now.

I always look forward to working with Joe on the issues dealing with the nuclear facility in South Carolina

I appreciate all you being here. Thank you, Marcy, for holding this hearing.

The findings outlined in these reports demonstrate that today's oil and natural gas jobs are better for energy construction workers across the country in both the short and the long term.

Frankly, domestic manufacturing to keep and create good-paying jobs here in the United States is important.

And if you are going to address climate change, nuclear energy is going to be a huge part of that.

The national laboratory system has long been labeled the crown jewel of our Nation's research and innovation ecosystem.

I am not convinced it is politically feasible to think that we can spend our way out of this issue

Real solutions, on the other hand, are focused on innovation and clean energy technology.

We won't work--it won't work--what won't work, anyway, is our command and control of regulatory heavy schemes.

What I am not proud of is President Biden, on his first day in office, unilaterally signing away thousands of well-paying jobs by halting construction of the Keystone XL pipeline with the flick of a pen.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

I hope we can find ways to get these innovators in the Department so they can help us with our national security.

We can remove the dams, reopen hundreds of miles of rivers to recover wild salmon and steelhead, and replace all the dams' socio-economic benefits: irrigation, power, barging for agricultural products.

That is a payment that is available today that can be up to $6,000 per person.

We appreciate Representative Simpson's leadership in bringing together the Federal agency, Simplot, and the tribes to work collaboratively on this.

At a time when urban Indian organizations are struggling, what is happening in the Seattle area that has enabled your budget to grow so strongly?

We strongly believe the BLM headquarters should be located in Washington, D.C.

We need to be working with those authorizing committees, so I appreciate that.

Several years ago I said, I guess about 4 or 5 years ago, we had one of the directors for the NEA out in Idaho.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for calling this important hearing to get input from the public on a wide array of programs under this subcommittee's jurisdiction.

I would have to say across the board, native or non-native, we have a problem with diabetes.

And the thought was that that would help with reducing the rate of diabetes.

So we are looking at our IHS dollars to maintain our cultural integrity.