The Healthy Forest Restoration Act will fix these problems over a period of many years rather than many months.

The potential still exists for an extreme wildfire event in the blowdown areas that could threaten visitors and communities outside of the wilderness.

This Healthy Forest Restoration Act is a solid piece of legislation. It takes common sense steps to improving our nation's forests.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding this hearing and for your leadership...

And it is interesting that the three Senators here, Senator Levin, Senator Collins, and I, we all represent border States.

I think it is extremely well done.

I would hope that folks would then use that checklist.

Does that mean that health care workers across the board in any community have to have this higher level of readiness?

We have to make it work, and you have to make it work in a way that does not infringe upon the rights and Constitutional protections of privacy of law-abiding American citizens.

I think your opening statement did a tremendous job of summarizing areas of concern for a number of us.

The President spoke very forcefully about nations that harbor terrorists and that the mission would be to ensure that Afghanistan was a place that no longer harbored the terrorists that were responsible for September 11.