The law says that they need a decision in 90 days. Is that law being violated? And who makes the choice on what laws we enforce and what laws we ignore?

We've got to do better than this and make sure that in this, we don't take those that are innocent and put them out of business.

I want to follow up on that because you are acting like you have nothing to do with this backlog, and I think that is an unfair characterization.

We humbly ask for the consideration of this committee to approve this, so that we can get the payment given to the residents of Swain County, and that justice and fairness can once again prevail.

I want to thank Congressman Heath Shuler for not giving up.

And yet, some 83 percent of their land is now on Federal lands.

You are just denying claims and denying claims.

At what point do we say enough is enough?

Do you think he deserved a $63,000 bonus? What do I tell the single moms back in Asheville, North Carolina, when a Federal Government employee is getting a $63,000 bonus?

How many people have been fired so far based on the actions that we have heard about today? How many have been terminated?

Do you not see that as a problem.