It is a big, big state. But thank you all for being here today.

I don't have a problem with it because it helps maintain the parking lots and bathrooms.

I just want to tell you I am very grateful, and I am proud of this Committee

Thank you, and I apologize for having to cut anybody off, we have got to do the five minute time limit.

There are some groups. There are some organizations that I don't care if there were a million wolves in Idaho, they would not want them delisted because they are going to be hunted.

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

Indian health should have never been subjected to that. Actually, everybody admits that now.

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

And we would urge the Subcommittee simply ensure that Fish and Wildlife Service use the best available science in moving forward with any such decision making.

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.

It is very expensive to try to save those structures once a fire starts out there.

the challenge is this. And I am sure you know this and you have probably all heard of it before.

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.

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

It has always amazed me that states can go out and open up gaming and then try to restrict it when tribes try to do it on their reservations.

We really ask the Subcommittee to pay attention to that respectfully.

First and foremost, I want to discuss our healthcare needs and the dangers of sequestration.

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

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 you being here.

Thank you, and thanks for all the work you do.

I would like to focus on contract support cost funding, irrigation and other drought assistance and public safety and healthcare to illustrate how important federal appropriations are to Indian Country.

This focus on education is very important, and these immersion skills are, I think, vitally important to preserving a culture, one that we cannot let die.

Norm told us to take care of the refuge system.

Gaming, whether you agree with gaming or not, has done a great deal on a lot of reservations.