"I think there is a cause and effect there, because we are in the ninth circuit court would be my added comment to that."
"I, too, am a little bit of a skeptic when I hear the word 'sequestration' is the problem. I don't buy it."
"I represent an entire State, the State of Montana, so I spend a lot of time in a pick-up truck, driving around, when I am back home."
"I go to a mill, another mill, I was at Chuck Roady's mill and I went down the south central part of our State to the RY mill outside of Livingston, Montana."
"We are pulling our hair out, looking at this and saying--in fact, this mill down in South Central Montana would immediately hire another 100 employees for the mill and another 100 loggers if we could ..."
"The folks who are stopping this are not the folks who are collaborating at the table right now; it is the folks who aren't there who file these lawsuits and stop responsible forest management."
"I am an avid outdoorsman, I am a fifth-generation Montanan, I have spent more time above 10,000 feet backpacking in wilderness than most Sierra Club members have."
"Is another good reason for extension so that local Montanans can have sufficient opportunity to digest the proposed plans, evaluate impacts, and then comment on them?"
"I think many of us realize that the wolves didn't know where the boundary of Yellowstone National Park was. They tend to move."
"It is paramount that our Federal Government doesn't stand in the way of obstructing our economy."
"In my home State our outdoor recreation industry is very, very important to our economy, as you well know."