this budget request does not make the necessary investments in achieving that goal.

Mr. Fleischmann, I know the programs feel that the new organization, if you like, kind of better aligns what they are trying to do.

their actions suggest that their true intention is to keep coal in the ground, and they do so at a very high cost.

Your budget request is down, how much was it, $132 million from last year. That means $132 million less commitment to nonproliferation, according to some people.

I appreciate the important work that you do.

why is the administration committed to leaving that power in the ground?

We are going to try.

you have ignored congressional direction in favor of the priorities set by extreme environmental groups and the EPA.

Thank you. Let me talk for just a minute about Sage-grouse and focal areas because as I talked to governors...

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.

We just sold 30,000 acres in Idaho to a couple of Texans. That was a lot of fun.

Do not do any transfers this year for wildfire fighting because what I always hear from people as I go up and talk to them they [the Forest Service] has to transfer funds, but they seem to handle it okay.

I have got county commissioners and so forth and some ranchers that have said that they are going to lose 40 or 50 percent of their grazing lands, with this sage-grouse proposal.

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.

There used to be a saying around here 5, or 6, 7 or 8 years ago in Indian Country, 'Do not get sick after June because all the money ran out.'

As far as the proposed increase that both you and the Forest Service have, the $2.50 administration fee for AUM, and the potential fee to go up the maximum of 25 percent, that has been proposed before, and the committee has rejected it.

What we are trying to say is listen, it has worked for wolves. It has done its job.

I understand that. I mean, wild horses and burros, that has been a problem forever.

I would encourage you and your office to work with the State of Idaho and with our office in developing some plans that might work.

I would encourage the Administration to give us something along those lines that we could look at with Resources Committee.

Now, the saying is 'Do not get sick after September.' We are moving along in the right direction.

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.

We ought to look at that whole program.

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

If we turn them over to the State, we would be P.O.'d at the State.