Polk County, in my district, they have also gone through another round of cuts to law enforcement officers.

The financial problems our counties are facing are unlike anything we've seen in recent history.

H.R. 841 is one of my highest legislative priorities.

The Forest Service uses U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED standards in the construction of many new buildings.

I was generally pleased with the President's State of the Union speech, particularly the bipartisan balanced approach to deficit reduction.

My colleague, Mr. Glenn Thompson and I have reintroduced the Forest Products Fairness Act (H.R. 979), a bill to fix the discrepancies against most forest products in the USDA biobased markets program.

I am sure my colleague will comment on that.

Unemployment has been pretty high in rural America, actually for a long time. I would argue they have been in a depression.

I hope you take some time and look at that bizarre bureaucratic piece of red tape.

I appreciate you being here to clarify where the Administration is.

I would argue they have been in a depression, not just a great recession here recently.