Ron Wyden

Thank you, again, for your patience. I know we're going to work together on it. This is one of those opportunities to get more value for the healthcare dollar.

There certainly should not be a filibuster at any Senate reform hearings.

The essence of holds reform is eliminating them altogether, requiring public disclosure of any hold or objection in the Senate.

There is great interest in our home State in what you all are trying to do.

We thank Senator Wyden for his leadership on this proposal.

Look forward to working with you closely.

Tell me about the potential new additions.

Those are Udall-like places.

We think that this is going to be a breakthrough in forestry policy in the West.

I consider this my top priority for the rural part of our State.

This is the bill that would consolidate a splintered ownership of land in our home State and protect almost 16,500 acres of new wilderness along the lower John Day River.

Thank Chairman Wyden and the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests as well as the full Energy & Natural Resources Committee including Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski for their work on the FLAME Act that is now law.

Thank you very much, and thank you for all your leadership with the Young Life effort. Very exciting.

We will follow up, the staff on both sides will follow up with you and work closely with you on it.

What would be your assessment of roaded access to Cathedral Rock wilderness?

We strongly support the legislation and we look forward to working with your staff and the Committee to finalize a bill that will consolidate land management and permanently protect Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven as Wilderness.

I think that on our watch we can go a long way to ending them.

I think we are making a lot of headway.

We are thankful for the support of Senators Wyden and Merkley in developing legislation to permanently protect Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven as federally-designated wilderness areas.

Chairman Wyden and Members of the Subcommittee, we thank you for taking these matters into consideration.

We applaud Senator Ron Wyden for his leadership in bringing together a diverse group of Oregonians to craft pioneering legislation that will put people to work restoring Eastern Oregon's forests.

I think you have really done a terrific job, and I thank you for it.

Is it fair to say that the deal falls apart without certainty for the private owners?

I want to suggest a bipartisan path forward that I hope we can look at in the days ahead. I see my friend from Georgia here, who also wants to work on these major economic issues in a bipartisan way. When you listened to colleagues last…

I come to the floor briefly this afternoon to point out these two provisions in the bill that promote quality and innovation. First, I hope States will use the provision that creates incentives for them to innovate. Our message ought to be…