I share your concern about the damage that invasive and noxious species can do to native vegetation and wildlife.

These are national lands, held in trust by the federal government, and while many of us who live in Idaho think of these lands as our own, these are America's lands.

This bill is the product of a decade of collaborative discussions and negotiating.

If this were easy it would have been done by now.

It is NOT the way Senator Bennet developed his Washington County, Utah Wilderness bill.

The needs of the people who live and recreate in the area are as important as the lines that we draw on a map.

CIEDRA is an example of statesmanship and collaboration at its finest.

if this were easy it would have been done by now.

I've been working on for some 10 years since I got into Congress.

Many Idahoans have decided that leaving land management in the Boulder-White Clouds in flux, as wilderness study areas and under the threat of closures and lawsuits, is not acceptable.

S. 3294 is a well-constructed piece of legislation that is the right thing to do for Central Idaho both economically and ecologically.

This bill releases four wilderness study areas that are currently wilderness study areas, treated as de facto wilderness.

I offer my thanks to Sen. Mike Crapo for his leadership.

That would be rural America, but Mr. Cole and I will come and visit your school at 6,700 feet if you will provide the oxygen.

Providing content-rich educational materials on line and connecting with rural communities through traveling exhibitions are worthwhile endeavors that I fully support.

Somebody has got too much money.

Due to the lack of resources to provide deterrents and lack of public safety, many of our people over the past few generations have turned to gangs, drugs, crime, alcohol, all of the social ills that can affect the community in the worst…

His words were that it was deplorable conditions, and these need to be changed.

You are right. It ought to be a program.

With our new justice center we are hoping to turn things around.

But conceptually it is a good idea.

We need to get this done.

Mr. Simpson has had the opportunity to come to our reservation. He just lives next door.

You mentioned the jail facility you have. I never realized before until we started having all the testimony, that there are many tribes in the Pacific Northwest in the Puget Sound area, and I suspect a lot of them have the same issue with…

We were not asking for something that was extravagant but adequate.