I would like to thank you for holding this very important hearing today.

Thank you very much, Administrator Mills, for your service. You have been a breath of fresh air in general to this Committee.

In the Pacific Northwest we have a new pest that is called the Department of Labor that is now going after fresh fruit and vegetable growers.

Without active management, forests have become overgrown, leaving them extremely susceptible not only to catastrophic wildfire but disease.

Due to extreme budget cuts, counties are unable to pay for basic services their citizens rely on.

We cannot expect these communities to live with this uncertainly any longer.

In Josephine County, the citizens have actually resorted to arming themselves.

The likelihood of bankruptcy for my rural timber-dependant Oregon counties is closer than ever.

The financial problems our counties are facing in Oregon are unlike anything we have seen in recent history.

I think incentivizing the states like the president is doing is a really smart way to get savings...

In the real world here we need to compromise.