I believe in having that full disclosure on both sides of the ledger, both with the airlines and with the Government fees.

I was the Democratic author many years ago of PFCs--because I saw inequities where, for instance, people from Vancouver are using the Portland airport and don't even pay taxes in the State of Oregon--I thought it was an inequitable way to…

OK. That would be a useful thing to know.

Travel management... is a vital process that protects key habitat for fish and games species.

We shall succeed, not by preventing the use, but by making the forests of use to the settler, the rancher, the miner, the man who lives in the neighborhood.

to enhance the protection of the resources associated with the Monument

I am especially pleased to see that a popular area known as the Joaquin Rocks would be permanently protected as Wilderness in this bill.

This is important legislation to my district and State.

I do have concerns about whether having a prayer installed at the World War II Memorial would go against one of the countries founding principles, the separation between church and State.

I would like to commend Congressman Farr for his tireless efforts to move his legislation forward.

Rail movement is an incredibly complicated issue.

I know it is not the direct subject of today's hearing, but I would like to turn to railcars yet again.

I hope that today's hearing will be the first step in passing his bill, the Oregon Caves Revitalization Act.

Oregon Caves Revitalization Act, it was actually--President Roosevelt first proposed the Oregon Caves as a monument.

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-way by the Federal agencies.

I mean, it seems to me that there just needs to be a simplified process here.

We gave pretty clear direction to the Federal agencies who wanted to have uniform policies across Federal agencies.

But the example I used was, we lack early seral on west side Oregon.

I mean your people--you know, you are not overstaffed in your agency, you have a lot more important things to do than over-regulating existing rights-of-way.

I have little patience for this issue here today.

But it does say, 'This guide does not supercede any existing plans or directives.'

The rarest form of forest in western Oregon, according to the noted scientists, Jerry Franklin and Norm Johnson, is seral, early seral.

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.

Or perhaps direction from Congress.

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 service.