Mark Amodei

And obviously you can't pollute the water, and you can't pollute the air, you can't pollute the anything, but it feels like a long ways away.

But you know what? Maybe I am wrong, which is why I want to know how you actually are going to do it.

I appreciate that one size doesn't fit all. It is, like, I am not going to go manage it for one county in Nevada or Montana, or whatever, but when it represents about a third of the land area of the country, I think it is worthy of being…

So it is like all those things, it would just be nice to have comprehensive cradle-to-grave understanding of here's the plan now that EPA's going to take the primary position and hire people, and people are going to be in the river doing…

If you do, fire away, but we are going to be following up on that because it would be unique to me to find that out.

I think when you are talking about a public lands withdrawal where there are arguably claims, rights involved, that the agency that is deciding probably shouldn't be helping the agency that is applying for something that would require the…

People are waiting a decade to get a conveyed title where it is like try to build a home, try to do anything where you don't really own it.

I would like to get with your BIA person, and I understand they are going to be in front of us later.

I look forward to talking offline substantially about the solutions to those problems.

We look forward to following up with you.

We can probably start with what are you doing now.

Just having positions on the book at the lower end that nobody will ever take isn't solving anybody's problem.

I think it is beginning to look that way, chronically open on staff positions which nobody can afford to take.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

But dealing with them correctly in the Intermountain West in high arid places, with all due respect, is not the same as other areas.

Do they benefit from dirty air? Do they benefit from breaking the rules? Obviously not.

We would like to make sure we understand that.

So it is fair to let Ms. Stone-Manning know, hey, we would kind of like to know how you are going to pay for operating this, not as public land, but as special public land.

I don't think there is any argument that it is cheaper to pay them than it is to replace them.

I think that is part of, you know, figuring out how it is $200 million more than when it started.

I will sure as hell vote for anything which deconflicts committee hearings.

If Congress wants to have an aggressive posture on reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government...

Nobody on the committee should think that I am telling them what to do, and it has been a while, but it is a fascinating operation over there.

And then the last thing is: Part of the thing that the people on this committee are going to have to do when we recommend a bill to the whole committee is it is a value judgment.

I live in a rural town of 830 people. I got broadband about half way through living out there.