Michelle Lujan Grisham

I agree that lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits can paralyze productive efforts on management activities.

We are going to have to have a long-term funding strategy for these issues.

Sometimes government can react a little bit too slowly, and we need to figure out a way to make sure that those investments are made.

We really don't have a resources funding vehicle so that we are doing management and conservation in a productive way.

That is a very dangerous path for you to go down, but I accept.

The disparity is wrong, and if we care about investing in healthy management of our forests, we have to invest in our Tribal partners.

It would be really helpful to continue that dialogue, and to have access to responses about that internal civil rights report.

It would be great if maybe you could provide the Committee a list of those partners and communities where you think we identified those best practices

For your public safety, your firefighters and your communities, that your capital investment fund is the same as your personnel fund, so we are going to cut personnel every time we get a new firetruck.

The status quo about how we are funding both prevention and fighting forest fires is not working.

I hope this hearing will help identify ways that Congress can help prevent wildfires, improve the way we respond to fires, and assist communities with post-fire recovery.

The current cycle of fire borrowing is not working, and contributes to more fires.

These are real problems that must be addressed, and that are threatening to devastate many parts of my state and the district.

Clearly protecting and improving the management of our forests are top priorities for me and many of the communities in my district.

I am pleased to be here for the second Subcommittee on Forestry and Conservation hearing for this Congress.

I believe that without a sustained and concerted effort to change the culture of the Secret Service that nothing will change.

I think there is general agreement by both sides of the aisle in this Committee...

So accountability is not part of your management style.

Submitted comment on behalf of David Sanchez, Vice President, Northern New Mexico Stockmen's Association.

TU strongly supports the proposed rule because it will clarify and strengthen the very foundation of the Clean Water Act's protections for important fish and wildlife habitat.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I think it is important both from the EPA and from our expert witnesses, we really need to understand the genesis of that cost.

The stakeholder involvement on this proposed rule is inadequate.

The current situation to be unacceptable, however, we think that this proposed rule would be dramatically worse than the current situation.

We have significant issues in terms of clarity about who does what, and in the proposed rule by EPA we find ourselves in much the same situation.