Great American Outdoors Act, great program. Great bipartisan support. You don't see that very often.

I appreciate that we can have a productive conversation about the land management issues we are facing.

I appreciate that----

I am not going to bring up whether it ought to be one land management agency with the BLM.

Not because I don't care about sage grouse, but right now, we have got the States, we have got private landowners, and we have got the Federal Government working together.

Affected farmers, ranchers, Tribes, Japanese-American community, and sportsmen have voiced legitimate objections.

Just because a critical mineral is found someplace doesn't mean that you can go mine it.

Collaboration between private forest owners and State and Federal agencies has proven to drive conservation outcomes.

What you and Congressman Zinke were talking about, you and I talked about at my office. We love our national parks to death.

We ought to be able to come up with a rule that makes sense.

What you have got to have is firm power, so that when you turn on your light, your light goes on.

We got through a whole hearing without talking about quagga mussels. I just had to throw that term out there.

somehow Congress has got to change the way we do NEPA and those other environmental laws, not to weaken them, not to take away the public's right to have a say in how things are managed

We have heard from Tribes about how increasing the pay of Federal employees only further exacerbates the hiring and retention problems for Tribal firefighters.

We, technically, are not supposed to fund anything that is not authorized.

Change is hard, and some of these parks we have got to find a better way to do it.

As a Western member of Congress, fire is far too familiar to the communities in my home State of Idaho and across the West.

I have said this before, but it is important to repeat it: as the Nation faces record inflation, we must be very conscious of our decisions on this committee to not saddle future generations with unnecessary economic burdens and further…

At that time, it had been 23 years since the Endangered Species Act had been reauthorized, and we knew that there would be an amendment to put the money in.

Somehow we have got to address that, but this will kind of exacerbate that problem, which doesn't mean it shouldn't occur.

Farmers are fearful of their practices and what they're going to be able to do and so forth.

Idaho is rich in critical minerals, and it is vitally important we get these minerals out of the ground in Idaho and around the country.

I support it. I support it fully.

Do you really think our adversaries, Russia and China, care what the Department of Defense and whether our NNSA can handle what they are requesting?

I joined my colleagues in introducing legislation to make sure that doesn't happen.