Denny Rehberg: “The arrogance of somebody who makes a determination that we do not have a dog in this fight, that we do not have an…”

“The arrogance of somebody who makes a determination that we do not have a dog in this fight, that we do not have an opinion, that we do not understand the holistic management of our forests is incredible to me. I think the taxpayer ought to be appalled. I think the Nation ought to be appalled. And I think it is time that we make a determination to do what the gentleman from Virginia has done in the Committee on Agriculture with all the hearings that I sat through as a freshman on his subcommittee and that our chairman of the Interior and now Resources Committee has done to consider the whole healthy forests initiative. I think we ought to take the high road; we ought to take the approach that we have sent over to them and say, it is not entirely about safe communities, which safe communities are important, but it is about healthy forests. And we sent over a healthy forests policy. And so what we really need to do is we need to sit down in the conference committee, work out the differences, pass something along to the President, and do what the gentleman initially suggested a number of years ago and, that is, create truly a healthy forest policy. I thank the gentleman for what he has done in his committee.”