It seems to me that we have so much, that we are doing so much fire borrowing that we should be treating this as the new normal and that is disastrous.
I am supporting Senator Wyden's bill, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2015 because...
Superstorm Sandy caused about $60 billion in damage, or at least the cost to Federal Government that this, I think, should be treated as a n...
I would like to see and I think this is an opportunity for helping to pay for the removal of hazardous fuels.
This is a very serious issue that we are looking very closely at now in the Department.
I think we all agree with that, and it still is and will be for quite a while.
It just seems like three quarters of all mining, of all coal miners, would be displaced by this rule.
I want energy projects in Indian Country to create jobs, create economic activity so that we can do something to break this cycle.
It should be easier to do energy projects on Indian land than anywhere else. Because we have a trust responsibility.
One thing that I think we all agree on is there is nothing like economic development.
Well, I am for pipelines. We have pipelines, and they need to be approved, so that we don't have what happened in Enbridge, in Michigan.