"Thank you all. We appreciate your efforts to manage these lands in a sensible way and the President's efforts in his budget to make sure that we are paying attention to our priorities."
"It would be a very odd thing indeed if all of the academies of sciences of the world... had all reached this conclusion."
"However many scientists there may be out there who indicated some anxiety or concern or resistance to the notion of climate change, there is an exponentially greater number of people, it appears to be..."
"I was encouraged by the President's fiscal year 2012 budget with respect to the investments being made in some of the critical areas..."
"I wanted to just go back to the climate change thing real quickly because Congressman Rohrabacher was pointing to a group of I guess you might call them dissenters on the view that climate change is n..."
"Do you think he would have bothered to know more if he had been required to personally certify the safety and adequacy of these plans?"
"I think your recommendations based on the findings you have made are very, very helpful and will be for a lot of us going forward."
"I think what you are doing is suggesting a reasonable set of regulatory oversight which in many ways will substitute for what has been a failed bureaucracy."
"H.R. 3742 will amend the IRA of 1934 by reaffirming the Secretary of the Interior's authority to take land into trust for Federally recognized Indian tribes."
"I felt compelled and obligated to introduce legislation to fix this problem."
"Mr. Kildee's commitment to Native Americans is well known and widely admired."