"This subcommittee oversees funding for the public land agencies, like the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the Forest Service."
"As a lifelong Idahoan, I have spent my career in Congress working to ensure the land management agencies are good neighbors."
"This subcommittee, under both Republican and Democratic chairmen, has committed to addressing the greatest tribal needs."
"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"
"They ought to all be treated equally."
"We ought to be able to come up with a rule that makes sense."
"We don't want to be forced into a position where all of a sudden that, because of the annual appropriation process, you are going to have to lay off a couple thousand people or something like that."
"the major part of it is going to be nuclear energy."
"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 am not going to bring up whether it ought to be one land management agency with the BLM."
"We are hearing from the Tribes and every entity. They train the law enforcement officers, and the law enforcement officers then go to the cities, you know, that have higher pay."