Thank you, and do not forget our friends in the United States Senate.

If you have any interest in any part of the Interior bill, whether it is the Smithsonian, whether it is, the National Zoo, or whatever it is, you ought to care about this, because how much we are spending on wildfires is affecting our…

We need to actively manage a lot of these forests, and particularly around areas that have cost us a lot of money to fight them.

Finally, we strongly support the continued inclusion of the no kill language to ensure that BLM does not kill healthy wild horses and burros.

They should have hearings in the authorizing committees and certainly shouldn't be cut off by riders on the floor.

Thank you all for being here today.

The current report language limiting the use of humane euthanasia for unwanted and unadopted horses should be removed.

We support these efforts, and we request that any increase in appropriations under the Wild Free Running Horses and Burros Act be used solely for the implementation of humane, on-the-range management methods such as immunocontraception and…

Mr. Simpson, thank you so much for being one of the original sponsors of the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act.

I appreciate your support for the bill that we are trying to do.

I think we are going to be more successful in the future working with private landowners...

It is now Congress to act decisively to ensure that these animals are neither sent into holding facilities nor sent in to slaughter.

the $77 million level that is being requested by the President this year just is not enough to address with that.

without additional federal support, it would be unrealistic for us to maintain this type of program at this level forever

Thank you all for being here and traveling such a long distance.

I don't remember a lot of people, and I don't know if anybody else has brought up the issue of radon.

there needs to be adequate funding for native communities, schools.

We appreciate you coming and offering your testimony here today for the committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

There is really no need for it.

I support what you are doing in the Everglades and look forward to working with you on that.

Where are we with the reauthorization of these?

I appreciate his support to bring that out on the table.

I have no problem meeting our obligations, and building homes, and doing the necessary things. I really hate spending money in court.

We need some help across the rotunda. We are not doing it fast enough, but it is even slowed down when both the Administration and the Senate don't put any money in for school construction, and it is frustrating the heck out of me.