"I am encouraged by the Committee's keen interest in identifying long-term solutions for our Federal forest counties and the hard-working people who live there."
"President Theodore Roosevelt, the father of our great forest system, would be horrified at the condition of our forests and our rural communities."
"It is clear the status quo is not working, and we need to get our rural communities working again."
"This is an important and timely hearing and I'm encouraged by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks Forests and Public Lands interest in identifying a long-term solution for our f..."
"I recognize my colleagues from Oregon, Representatives Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader, for working with me and many other Oregonians who agree that the status quo serves no one well."
"It's time for real change."
"How could we let this happen to our rural forested communities?"
"I am committed to continuing in that effort, as I have in the past on legislation like forest restoration."
"the fact that we are having such a hearing is a testament to the breadth of innovation using wireless smartphones and tablets"
"the specter of costly and time-consuming regulation, to say nothing of a 2.3 percent excise tax, looms large over this industry"
"why would we treat mobile applications the same as a dialysis machine?"
"the overbroad application of FDA regulation and the health care law's medical device tax are not, as some have suggested, outside the realm of possibility."