"And I believe you looked at an option that would incorporate some of additional public domain lands which are interspersed."
"The discussion draft did not include the recent legislation introduced by Senators Wyden and Merkley."
"This is not a one-size-fits-all solution."
"If our goals are to protect homes and communities from wildfires, we should do that."
"Everything I have seen indicates that if we want to prioritize protecting homes from wildfires, we should start in the wildland-urban interface."
"I disagree strongly with the Office of Management and Budget that the safe and secure county rural schools funds are subject to sequestration."
"This is extraordinary, and I just find this very, very hard to believe."
"I have been involved in the fight over mining reform, and I did the royalty amendment back in 1994."
"Why wouldn't we just say we want a royalty?"
"In the last Congress, MAP-21 was one of the few products of any note, and it did provide for essentially a status quo continuation of our existing service transportation programs; however, as we know ..."
"Our systems are deteriorating more quickly than we are repairing them and we are failing to undertake major new initiatives to get people out of congestion, make the country more competitive in the wo..."
"It has been, you know, a given since the founding of the Nation, George Washington with canals, Abraham Lincoln with railroads, Dwight David Eisenhower with highways, and Ronald Reagan incorporating t..."