The purpose of these hearings is not to gather information on the real economic or environmental challenges we face; these hearings are nothing more than political attacks on the Administration.

But you recount the testimony of the former Office of Surface Mining regulatory support division chief, who was later relieved, that his testimony makes it sound like it was all political.

When are we going to get a regulation on foreign repair stations? It has only been 12 years since I first began raising concerns about security there.

I want to know why... I like the specificity when the airline imposes a surcharge for fuel costs.

we are not going to let these people land in the United States of America. Plain and simple, we are not going to let them land.

we have to take a strong stand.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses and to continuing a frank and open discussion on how to improve this law.

Are you being consulted in this, or are you intervening or commenting to Homeland?

I am interested to hear there will be a proposal on reauthorizing Magnuson available in a week.

I guess when I spoke at the beginning I was saying how we need to move toward dealing with multiple species in innovative ways.

this flag of convenience thing is total BS, and we got to stop it now.

I don't understand why the FAA is prohibiting the airlines from breaking out what goes into the cost of a ticket.

Yeah, we want to get to zero, but that is great.

I want to thank you for the work you did early on in tightening up some of the Buy America requirements, and I would observe that were we to make those investments we would create one hell of a lot of jobs.

So it might happen before fiscal year 2015?

trying to put something into the treaty that at least one of the principal entities being, you know, the government, is adamantly opposed to would seem to me to be very problematic in terms of getting to a successful negotiation.

I will note that we do not always agree on every issue that comes before our committee, but on this issue we do share many of the same concerns.

I think it's important to start that dialog as soon as we possibly can

regardless of administration, people look to what we have here in the Northwest with our power generation very enviously

Need will only increase as this region continues to grow and as food supply and security continue to grow in importance.

Well, I like those. It seems that we had some consensus there, to a great extent, and I will say, you know, I do fear, personally, and I'll express it here, because I think it will be of great value in the future, that essentially we are…

rebalancing the Canadian Entitlement is a very important opportunity to ease pressure on rates.

So could you tell me? I don't quite understand.

Thank you for your testimony. And having to catch planes all my life here, I'll be very quick.

I also wanted to acknowledge Congressman DeFazio's years of service and support for rural electric co-ops like Lane Electric.