"That seems like a very broad and inappropriate use of the petition, and, in my opinion, it probably should not have been documented--docketed."
"Can you talk to somebody in the Senate about getting off their ass and moving that?"
"But when we talk about things like maps that were brought up earlier, and it is like, okay, we got a new map that has a PJ and an urban overlay to it, and the RMP amendment process is not nimble."
"I do not want you to work on. Your first question is, the Forest Service said they got their sagebrush focal area boundaries over their real estate from Fish and Wildlife Service."
"I would appreciate it you could check and see what your folks did, if anything, in support of the designation of the Basin Range National Monument before the actual designation."
"the attendance at that meeting was highly selective, and did not include some of the folks you would assume, counties affected, county commissioners."
"So it is fair to me, if I want to talk about how that got created and where the boundaries are, I need to talk to Dan Ashe about it."
"It is like before we even get to well, this one was signed by the President and this one was signed by the Secretary, you know, it is like how do we react to those things because I got to pass a new l..."
"The point is a process point. I am not asking you to come talk about this case. I want to know the process that says that is OK."
"Mr. Amodei's legislation goes a long way to address this problem, and is a first step in addressing the Nation's troublesome dependence on foreign sources of mineral resources."
"What H.R. 1937 seeks to do is provide some predictability and stability to the permitting process."