Mike Simpson

Appreciate all you guys do.

If you care about jobs, care about the urban forest, if you care about environment, if you care about property value.

I appreciate you being here.

I know they do important work in Idaho, and I suspect everywhere else, but nobody has mentioned stream gauges.

We have to get people to understand fire-wise, prevention techniques when they do buildings around communities.

I actually want to spend a whole lot less money on wildfire fighting by trying to do the things that will prevent the catastrophic fires.

I think that our infrastructure needs are the second biggest problem next to the debt and deficit and getting it under control.

I am surprised that Joyce and Betty were not here to protect the Great Lakes because if Kim was still here he would tell you if they are not going to protect them, he is taking it to California because they have a severe drought there.

I went up one day to the Nez Perce reservation and they have a program that they are working with the University of Idaho on that does exactly what you are talking about.

We hope to address the radon issue across this country.

We can't do that. It puts a lot of pressure on the rest of the budget to do that and it does not fix the problem.

We have got a $700 billion backlog. This means in 350 years we can address the backlog that exists today.

I thank you for considering my testimony today in support of critical funding for states.

We need to have a more ordered process of making sure we get the reauthorizations done.

Where are we with the reauthorization of these?

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

Did the President request this in his budget? Do you know?

Are there any fees that would go into effect on the trails that are out there now?

Sustained funding to keep restoration projects on schedule is critical to avoiding collapse of the ecosystem, the economy and the drinking water supply for 7.5 million Floridians and millions of tourists.

If you see the pictures of it, it has been abandoned and they went in with a small grant from the Federal Government to start it, and all of a sudden the community got behind it and it was almost all done by private donations and private…

I appreciate that, and there really are, and a lot of people do not understand the importance of the arts and what it does, and historic preservation is very important.

Congressman, because they have been surprised and they have seen some new insight.

Thanks, Charles, for being here today, and testifying on behalf of the American Dental Association.

Thank you, and thank all of you for being here today, and for your testimony. We appreciate it very much.

I have got a little bill to deal with that little fact, that we are taking all the money out of other programs in the Forest Service to fight wildfires that will help address that.