Mike Simpson

The proposed reductions are unacceptable as far as I am concerned, but we will see how the Committee reacts...

We remain dismayed at the seemingly unsolvable issues that continue to haunt efforts to maintain healthy horses on healthy ranges.

We are also concerned about the reduction of $12.4 million from the Alaska Conveyance Program.

We believe funding for this program should be restored.

The Bureau of Land Management budget does not recognize funding directly for the National Scenic and Historic Trails.

Stewardship contracting is something that I think everybody on this committee supports.

Would we all not be better off if those resources--or at least a majority of those resources--were used in managing public lands rather than in courts?

The biggest threat really is the deficit that we are facing.

So I know that is not on your topic and not your responsibility but I would just ask, as you do have the opportunity to interact with a lot of members and influence a lot of people, just get them to think about the big problems and have…

I suspect this year we will also have to again fight off some amendments from some people that would like to do away with a lot of the arts.

This Committee, as you noted, has been very supportive of the arts and will continue to be.

I am going to have to go get a Bartlett's quotation book.

Even though he is not here, I also want to thank Congressman Simpson from my home state.

America needs to get involved in this budget discussion because it is ordering priorities but it is also recognizing that there is a finite set of resources.

Several of us have been trying to figure out how we are going to fund these systems.

We tried to make sure that NASA did not send over the Landsat Satellite without the money, which, unfortunately, the budget was proposing to do.

We have got to find a different way to fund these systems, frankly, and I do not have the answer to it.

To characterize this as a closed competition really is not correct.

Our role is advising the Commission in their activities. We are acting as project manager.

If his constituents can't afford electric cars, then mine certainly can't, because yours are rich compared to mine.

What is important is whether the values are expressed by actions, indeed by the managers that are out there.

Under the Idaho Settlement Agreement, the State of Idaho consented to temporarily store Navy and DOE spent fuel in exchange for DOE's commitment...

I am looking to try to save money here somewhere.

Thank you. And thank both of you for being here today. We appreciate it very much.

Do you plan to fund this activity at the INL? And if not, how can you get states to consent to store spent nuclear fuel...