We could slide right back into litigation.

When tribes can control their affairs--their education system, their health care system--and individual tribal members know where the decisions are made, it is not somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away, it is in their community…

You did what two previous administrations, one Democrat and one Republican, couldn't do.

I would really like your comments. One of the things that really frustrated me at multiple administrations over the process of Cobell was this act of, investigation of the records, computations.

I appreciate the role that you played in sort of pulling the poison out of this thing.

I think it builds a lot of support for the National Park System because parks obviously are not distributed evenly all across the country.

If there is anything that we can do legislatively to help you in terms of facilitating that process, please let us know or come forward with recommendations because it really is very important, as you know, to a lot of tribal people.

I look forward to working with him and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to make sure that we get this historical obligation of the United States taken care of.

It is just very important, I think.

In the Omnibus Public Lands Act in 2009, we actually added several segments to the National Trail of Tears, national historic sites, spanned six states.

I think you can get way too caught up in these details. It is people's lives and assets.

They are to be highly commended.

There are still lots of invasive species around the Longworth Atrium if you just keep your eyes open.

I just want to be very careful as we go forward in this area, and I am just speaking for myself, that we not take away proven technologies or walk into litigation situations without meaning to on something that has been proven, used for…

I will assure you you will be seeing lawsuits about this in the not-too-distant future.

I think the Secretary has brought us to the brink of closure and victory, and it would really be a shame if one part of the bureaucracy or Congress blew an opportunity to settle a case whose roots reach back into the 19th Century and which…

I think particularly if you look at the explosion of litigation over the course of a decade, it is hard to believe there is that much local issue, there is a national concern here.

I commend you for doing it. I certainly will take you up on your offer--I literally would love to see this.

It became almost unlivable, a health hazard.

I just think you need a little bit more.

I think that was a brilliant settlement. It was a great way to deal with a thorny issue.

What I do not want to see is the parties caught in litigation that is literally generations long.

It is literally in the neighborhood of 1 million wells. So this is not a new thing.

If you push production outside the United States, ... this stuff usually happens someplace else and usually happens worse.

I do have some concern, again, I recognize you have got budget realities here, but the $44 million cut in construction is going to hurt a lot of these things.