Russ Fulcher actually said...

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce a friend and a fellow Idahoan, John Stuart."

"I wish there were more of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here, because most of them come from states which are identified as donor states, not donee states."

"We have bureaucrats in DC making decisions not on facts on the ground."

"That is a lose-lose deal, because those in those donor states are sending that money, in large cases, to the West, where there is a lot of this public land."