Frankly, you cannot really assess the needs if you do not track them anyway, you do not know if you are doing any good.

I want to say how much I appreciate your emphasis on the energy part of this and just kind of make a point for the record if I may, Mr. Chairman.

this really is a huge problem jurisdictionally because historically you gave tribes the ability to have jurisdiction over their people but you did not give them any jurisdiction with people on their land that were not of their tribe

If I may, I just want to, for the record, thank you and thank Chief Pyle, who is just a remarkable leader.

Why would that be a problem to get some language that would eliminate that kind of ridiculous interpretation because these dual-use facility things are really good.

That is exactly right, Mr. Chairman. That is exactly right. I was hopeful we could get it done in November or December after the elections but hopefully we can push that along this year.

Most of the mail I get on this issue, Mr. Chairman, is from people who do not own horses, who have never been around horses.

It is a nightmare problem in Oklahoma, the allotment situation, so what is the feasibility?

It just flows right back.

We would end paying for them in indigent care in some other facility when they are actually entitled to medical care.

this idea that you have to give up part of your sovereignty to get some of it is really incredibly offensive.

I think there really is a very strong bipartisan constituency for this sort of thing...

I am all for shifting.

At the end of the day, attitude is everything.

I really want to say how much I appreciate the fact that at every point in your testimony that you talked about governmental units you included tribes.

It is going to be a big disaster. A lot of people are going to get very rich, and markets are going to get manipulated.

I think it is absolutely the right place to go with the additional money that you have asked for.

I am delighted, I want to go on record, this idea of having a contingency fund to deal with the fire problem.

I have learned a lot today, Mr. Chairman.

my instinct would tell me, we are going down cap-and-trade because those of us that believe in taxing carbon, frankly, either do not think we can get the votes or do not want to have the vote; and that is why we are going to use…

the process is controversial, complex, bureaucratic, and has not worked well.

I believe their real challenge is that they have no common, unified position on Iraq. Whether we are right or wrong on our side of the aisle, we do have a common position.

I promise you this, if George Bush loses the election, Osama bin Laden wins the election. It's that simple. It will be interpreted that way by the enemies of the United States around the world.