Mike Simpson

I urge you, Mike Simpson, coming from a state that prides its agricultural products and family built ranches, to do everything to protect organic, small producers, and the choice of the American people to eat healthy.

We want USA farm policies to rise up to the best in the world. The best is very safe and healthy and rooted in our strict certified organic farms standards such as California Certified Organic and Oregon Good Tilth certified organic farm…

Hiring veterans for patriotic reasons expresses appreciation and respect. Hiring them for business reasons gets results.

Despite a somewhat abbreviated hearing schedule this year, I am proud that the subcommittee is able to hold hearings on these very important programs.

I appreciate you all being here with your testimony, and we will certainly take into consideration your views as we write the 2013 appropriation bill.

Thank you, Congressman Simpson, for your friendship and commitment to make sure the federal government fulfills its trust responsibility.

I am a big fan of historic preservation, and, as a country, we are still a young country compared to, you know--

We are going to need some help in trying to push that through, because, you know, everybody throughout Congress has different priorities.

I am just trying to fund it, and to fully fund it.

It is just stupid to build facilities and not put the staff in there for them.

I am one of those who happens to believe you have got to do everything to reform entitlement programs.

When Congressman Dicks decided to retire I said who the heck is going to take care of the Puget Sound now?

We are going to have to have a lot more revenue for that.

I appreciate that very much.

I will be the first to admit it would be nice if we had some more money.

I am going to be in New Mexico and Arizona in September, so we will stop and say hi and let you take us on a tour of the place.

Thank you. I thank all the panelists for being here today, and look forward to working with you as we develop this upcoming budget.

It should never cost $6,500 to get permits on Indian land when right next door it is $75 on non-Indian land. So that is something we need to look at, too.

As I think you put it--the size of the reservation, the overworked officers, and the problems that they have in trying to address the needs. And I said at the time if it keeps you up at night, it keeps me up at night. We are going to work…

When you look at the rate of crimes against women on reservations, it is appalling.

I am concerned, as you are, that the President's budget for educational services would actually build no new schools.

We need a good educational program within Congress to educate Members to the amount of money we spent on health care in Indian Country versus the rest of whatever government does.

We have both a treaty responsibility plus a moral responsibility to make sure of that.

Simplifying that would be a huge step forward.

It is really surprising. I had never really thought about it before...