I happen to be one of those that think that you can do and we should do both interim storage as we are working towards standing Yucca Mountain back up and getting it operational and following the law.

we should have no lower goal for our country.

We need an honest assessment of what this is going to be.

It is for their health that the Federal Government creates water quality standards, and the Federal Government has the responsibility to help these communities meet those standards.

I am a big public-private partnership proponent, supporter.

I am a supporter of trying to be able to use the full breadth of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

More funding is needed to accelerate the construction of these already authorized CERP projects.

Ronald Reagan once said to us that you and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

Effective forest management can prevent a routine fire that is manageable and easy to control from becoming a catastrophic one.

the first purpose of any government or its leaders is to protect the lives and security of its people, and the failure of this responsibility renders all others meaningless.

I support the principles outlined in Representative Michael Simpson's legislation H.R. 167, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act.

I can attest that reliable budget numbers are essential in accurately and effectively planning for emergencies.

Mike Simpson, who is a member of this committee, has a bill that would allow us to use the disaster account for these catastrophic fires.

It is--if you go out and do timber sales, reforestation is a mandatory thing. It is not on a wildfire.

I think I have detected one of the problems, and it may be that the two were not speaking the same language.

Congressman Simpson has asked to bring members of this subcommittee to Idaho, and the Nimiipuu would welcome you to a land that we share with the deer, elk, moose, bear, wolf, Big Horn sheep, mountain lion, that watches the eagle announce…

We need to push EPA to get these sites cleaned up and get back to economic order again.

We believe in self-governance around here, so we know you have the--Indian Country has the competence to run their own affairs.

We have a responsibility there. We know that, and we are trying as much as we can to do that.

The Nez Perce Tribe has long been a proponent of self-determination for tribes and believe our primary obligation is to protect the treaty-reserved rights of the tribe and its members.

We need to all work together to get this under control.

This legislation doesn't create a new law, but rather lays out explicit conditions by which FDA must explain how and when it will enforce dairy food standards of identity.

We need some help solving it.

I wanted to thank Representative Simpson for all the efforts he has done for Indian Country over the years.

I know there is a great deal of needs there, and I do hope to get the committee out--we have talked about this for a while--and visit some of the tribal lands out in Idaho and let them see what is going on at the various places.