I think I just received my marching orders.

I have enjoyed working with you the past several years and look forward to continuing that productive relationship in this Congress.

It is your job to carry out the law as passed by Congress.

I think there needs to be clarity in the statutes with respect to background levels and exceptional events.

I applaud the transparency that you are trying to create there as long as we can maintain that privacy of people's medical records.

One of the other important programs that was actually zeroed out in last year's budget that we didn't zero out and is zeroed out again in this year's budget is Rural Water Assistance.

We have to work together to make sure we rekindle our fisheries, particularly with salmon.

Thank you for what you do. We look forward to working with you to try to solve some of these problems in the future.

In my view, it is not wise. I think that the collaboration with the States and localities is really the heart of federalism on these issues.

it is both a trust and a moral responsibility that we fund Indian healthcare.

As I have studied politics since junior high school, I guess, I understood that it was the legislative branch that wrote the law.

Didn't the Administrator say that that could be kept confidential under the proposal that they are making?

What is very clear is that what is happening in Venezuela is not simply a Venezuelan problem, as bad as it is in Venezuela.

One of the challenges you have is that in Idaho I might drive 500, 600, 700 miles a day. I don't have 4 hours to charge a battery halfway there or a third of the way there two or three times.

This legislation uses unobligated revenues from all energy sources to pay for the backlog maintenance in national parks.

Our national parks have long been thought of as America's best idea. In fact, they have other complimentary names, such as our crown jewels. But more than anything, they are ours.

It is long past due that we discuss the backlog maintenance in our national parks.

Their annual appropriated budget of $2.9 billion for the entire agency simply won't be able to account for the $11.6 billion backlog in maintenance.

I am thankful to Congressman Hurd, Ranking Member Hanabusa, Congressman Garamendi, and Congressman Schrader for supporting this bill in an effort to fix our parks.

I don't want to pit any programs against each other, I simply want to focus our efforts on using the long-time practice of existing energy revenues to fix public lands.

I introduced the LAND Act to help pay for both backlog maintenance and the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The parks belong to the American people and we should care for them as our own.

We are also considering the Legacy Act, introduced by Congressman Hurd.

I am pleased all of the bills we are considering today honor that promise, and I look forward to working with Chairman Bishop and this Subcommittee to address the LWCF, as well.

I am a little concerned that we are using existing funds in the appropriation to address the wildfires.