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

Can you provide a list of partners and communities for best practices in collaboration and find the right balance of managing our forests with the right mix of benefits under multiple use and also still recognizing the need to remove…

I mean that is what I would certainly like to see.

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

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

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

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

So accountability is not part of your management style.

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

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

I understand more than ever the importance of protecting this scarce resource.

the stakeholder involvement on this proposed rule is inadequate.

I have an expectation that they fulfill that obligation to protect clean water.

I was struck by several of the panelists talking about the withdrawal of the rule, and I am wondering, as we look at methods, going forward, if we should also ask EPA to do a supplemental rule because they have significant comments that…

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, Mr. Chairman.

I am really excited... about having this first hearing in this Subcommittee.

Thank you, Chairman Thompson, and Ranking Member Lujan Grisham.

We thank you for holding your hearing March 17, 2015, to review the proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking.

A one-size-fits-all approach can often lead to unintended consequences.

Policymakers have an obligation to work together to ensure that communities have access to safe drinking water.

We call on EPA and the Corps to withdraw the proposal and engage in a meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders, including electric cooperatives and others that provide essential services to the rural community.

the Waters of the U.S., has to be addressed at some form and fashion.

I really appreciate that because--and that is not to minimize that you identified significant issues with the current proposed rule, but that getting to a place where all of the stakeholders are clarifying responsibilities and…