I must express my disappointment that this budget continues to reflect the administration's decision to shut down the Yucca Mountain project.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

Wouldn't it be better if we had a steady budget for SMRs?

What the American people want to know is how much deficit are we going to add to our current deficit if we were to pass this blueprint this year, which I understand is $1.3 trillion.

They talk a lot about it, but their budgets do not reflect that, and I also hear a lot of talk about Simpson-Bowles, which I support, but you know what? This administration walked away from it.

You ought to at least present a budget which says, 'I do not care, 50 years from now.' Make it some time, but tell us when, if we adopt this spending plan, when we will achieve a balanced budget, and quit adding to the debt.

I was surprised that they are really watching Congress.

We have had economists and other experts come and tell us that we have a structural deficit problem that is unsustainable.

We all know that we have got to restrain discretionary spending. We all know that we have got to get entitlements under control.

Count mine as one solid voice on behalf of ensuring that the landscape we bequeath to future generations is one with an abundant, generous, and diverse system of wilderness areas.

Providing this authority will ensure that existing water diversions can be properly maintained and repaired when necessary and preserves beneficial use for private property owners who hold water rights under state law.

H.R. 2050 is bipartisan and non-controversial. It is intended as a simple, reasonable solution to a problem that I think we can all agree should be solved as quickly as possible.

H.R. 2050 authorizes the Forest Service to issue special use permits for all qualifying historic water systems in these wilderness areas.

This nonpartisan, noncontroversial legislation is a technical fix intended to enable the Forest Service to authorize and permit existing historical water diversions within Idaho wilderness.

This bipartisan, non-controversial legislation is a technical fix intended to enable the Forest Service to authorize and permit existing historical water diversions within Idaho wilderness.

Just quickly to add to that, as a big believer in those incredible educational opportunities of apps, of a lot of this digital media, how do we monetize that?

After spending billions of dollars going into ever-changing directions, how do you sustain a program with a 20- to 30-year lifetime frame in an environment of ever-changing policies?

No Administration or Congress can unilaterally decide the law doesn't apply to them.

One of the most glaring decisions by the Administration to ignore this fundamental principal of law is the attempt by the Administration to unilaterally withdraw the license application for Yucca Mountain.

I suspect if you look at it, most of those are involved because of an authorization by Congress, and that it would take legislative action to change those things.

Everyone on this panel and I think everyone in Congress knows the importance of job training.

It seems like every single agency has specific money to do climate-change studies, but there is no overall strategy of climate change.

Community colleges are going to be more and more important as lifelong education.

I don't think anybody on this committee or anybody that I am aware of isn't in favor of teacher quality programs and improving teacher quality.

I hope they take that seriously as they do the reauthorization that is coming up.