"Mr. DeFazio, I appreciate your comments that we cannot accept a patchwork of decisionmakers on a local basis who may or may not understand the larger issues of the importance of the electrical grid to us."
"To the Bonneville Power Administration, my understanding is that since BPA has rights-of-way that date from the 1930s and 1940s, that there is some problem with the recognition of these as rights-of-w..."
"We gave pretty clear direction to the Federal agencies who wanted to have uniform policies across Federal agencies."
"I have little patience for this issue here today."
"This recent court ruling was really asking the question of the authority that the Recreation Enhancement Act has with concessionaires."
"It is not only medicine to the body, but also medicine to the mind and medicine to the soul to be able to go visit those same national parks that they have defended our country and defended with their..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, you have created such a great example early in the morning here, that I will also forego the opening statement."
"I appreciate the Chairman's willingness to include this bill in today's legislative hearing, and I look forward to working together to move this legislation forward."
"I think we consider to be challenged to some degree, as these gentlemen did a really good job of explaining with this issue about profits and non-profits."
"Now this seems--and I have been quite involved in this--it seems to me that the Forest Service, where they rode more miles for about one-tenth the cost on a better road, you know, there needs to be so..."
"Or perhaps direction from Congress."