Maurice Hinchey: “Thank you for participating at today's hearing.”

I just want to thank you for what you are doing, and what you said is so true.

The protecting of our wild public lands, of course, as we know, is something that is deeply important.

The growth is very, very slow, and the unemployment rate is still 9 percent.

If we can prevent pollution from occurring and dangers to the public health, we certainly ought to do that because we have huge examples for many centuries in this country where we haven't prevented the pollution and we end up having to…