James Oberstar: “EDA has been a favorite government agency of mine.”

The efforts of Federal agencies can overlap and at times conflict, and currently, there is no body within the Executive branch to provide substantive coordination or, if necessary, resolution of disagreements among agencies to ensure…

I, too, have natural resources--national forests, national parks, wildlife refuges. When fire, as it does regularly, strikes the national forest, that land regenerates. The oil destroys. It likely cannot be restored by itself or by human…

We want to protect our waters. We want to protect our wetlands. We want to provide for future generations.

But we all also recognize that the potential cost of meeting these needs is immense.