Mark Amodei

Thank you for having this hearing. This would be great if this was across all the subcommittees...

The chair wishes to extend its thanks to Congresswoman Wexton for her help on that.

We are not going to wait for something to happen and say, 'Oh, guess we ought to, you know, staff up our K-9s so we can do more sweeps.'

We are looking for really smart, really good people. And I don't necessarily care which piece of paper they have.

So, if you could check into that and give us a database on that.

I would submit that Mr. Reno's testimony to the Committee concerning the Thacker Pass area is simply false and misleading.

Letter to Chair Westerman along with a rebuttal to Chairman Franklin's comments at the hearing on Thacker Pass.

I just wanted to give you a heads-up on that where it is like we would really like to work--it is like, listen, BLM and Interior will make whatever decision they want after taking all the evidence, which is fine.

I think I have been here long enough to know that prior to the 6th, you know, we were kind of doing things the way we were and whatever. It is like it is obviously time for a change, and I think that that is going to require some resources.

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It is important that we update our labor laws and empower the Department of Labor to protect our workers.

What steps can the Department of Labor take to ensure that companies like Amazon are held accountable for their mistreatment of workers?

I would kind of like to just say the first one I would--my request is, is that we make the Bureau of Indian Affairs realty operations a secretarial priority.

We need to do better

I will just say that your committee staff has done an excellent job of identifying someone from a nationwide perspective.

We have solutions. The industry will rise to the occasion to be able to deal with it.

I think we need to talk about, as the committee does its work, talk about the 800-pound gorilla in the room, which is forest health, which is also fuels management.

Quality is preferable over quantity.

I am a dedicated personal recycler, but one of the things I have noticed--and I live in an area where water isn't quite as abundant...

I am hoping that that is with an eye toward, what does the campus as it is defined going forward look like in terms of the physical security?

And I appreciate that. So I will look forward to our conversation which takes us down a little bit more--

I think that you are doing such a great job that I am going to yield back my time in the interest of moving right along.

It is unacceptable that you have people queuing up to get through a gate for pedestrian access but the fence has rendered pedestrian access difficult, to be generous.

It is a good thing I don't have feelings as we talk about the subject matter of today's meeting.

To make it really clear here, it is becoming more and more frustrating to know--and you have hit the nail on the head.