"Unfortunately, and I do say 'unfortunately' with the strongest of terms, a categorical exclusion was used not to cut trees."
"Montana, we rely on access to our national forest to help drive a $7 billion outdoor recreation economy."
"The Government should never be cutting a deal. They should be listening to the people on the ground."
"I would never, ever, ever have voted for a categorical exclusion for the purpose of making some corporation rich off our public lands, never happen, never going to happen."
"The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that the Ranking Member and I helped write... gave significant money to the Forest Service."
"I need you to really pay some attention to that so we can get this thing done."
"I have heard from Blackfeet Tribe in Montana their current vacancy rate at their local IHS facility, listen to this, 50 percent."
"The VA CAREERS Act reimagines the way we pay VA docs. I believe this is critical."
"But if you have got a tribe that is complaining about not have enough resources, at a bare minimum you should look and see what the BIA is spending before they took that contract over, add some inflat..."
"we need more resources going on the ground, we need more police officers, we need more people"
"You can't run a police department on air. It takes dollars, and it takes people, and people cost money."