We need a much broader policy and fix to this.

The worst fires in Idaho and in fact, in the Nation were in 1910.

This is a positive question.

I always have figured that these are owned by the people of the United States and consequently if you allow someone else to extract them, that the people of the United States ought to get a certain percentage of that regardless of what the…

If we could use those resources... in actually managing our public lands rather than managing attorneys in court, I think we would be a lot further ahead.

Our commitment is to provide suppression up to the structure.

That is bizarre, to say the least.

Of the many challenges facing Indian Country, those issues related to law enforcement are among the most severe, troublesome and destructive in human terms.

Congress has an obligation to address the great disparities that exist between American Indian, Alaska Native populations and other populations in the United States.

When you tick off people on all sides on a number of issues, that is usually a sign that you are doing a pretty good job.

I would encourage all of us in positions of responsibility to take actions to address climate change based on what science tells us rather than responding to what our emotions may tell us.

I mean, it just seems to me that we held hearings in the last Congress, brought in the federal agencies, and they all testified that they already can see the impacts of climate change, drought and bug infestation and the expansion of the…

Got no problem with that. I agree with that statement entirely.

I hope to cover a lot of ground with you today.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I really think the job you have is one of the most important jobs in government, quite frankly.

I think you are working in a system that is so totally broken that unless we reform this cotton-picking system, we are going to continue to fiddle around trying to fix, you know, put Band-Aids on when we are bleeding from the arteries.

I take seriously Congress's responsibility to meet these needs and look forward to our discussions today.

There is a reason that if you want to reduce the price of gasoline, you have to produce more.

I support what they are doing. It is an old theater that is on the National Historic Registry.

Well, what bothers me a little bit about this is if you only give 60 percent of the fixed costs, you are effectively setting policy.

The reality is, when we look at reorganization, which is what this hearing was kind of about, what the GAO report, those things that we attribute to the Forest Service, if we decided to move it to Interior, those functions could all be…

Our job is to do what we think is right, and if we get dis-elected we get dis-elected, that is okay.

We have a tendency, and whenever something goes wrong, and you know as well as I do that in a government of this many employees there is going to be some crooks.

My feeling is that there has got to be a better way.