Let me start with you, if I might, Mr. Sherman?

Each has enough to survive, but never enough to succeed when Oregonians that I meet at community meetings and certainly on the east side consistently tell me, 'Ron, we need the tools in order to have good-paying jobs in our communities…

Senator Wyden's Oregon Eastside Forests Restoration, Old Growth Protection and Jobs Act represents a compromise.

This administration strongly supports the goals and the principles of S. 2895.

I think it is reflective of the fact that you and Mr. Shelk, in particular, have picked out a model that, based on the evidence, can work in the real world.

it is nonetheless a great bill.

today I am introducing a bill to right a bureaucratic wrong that has prevented capable and qualified veterans from serving their home States as work-study students in Congressional offices. For years, veterans have served in the office of…

I was recently having a townhall meeting in Condon. It's Condon, Oregon, population 600.

We are just baffled as to why the Department doesn't think they should get the grant.

Halting a program at this point would not be helpful for jobs.

I mean, these are tiny communities. I have open meetings every county, every year. I'm concerned that they walk away and think that the Federal Government is going to have policies that turn them into a sacrifice zone that basically say…

I am absolutely convinced there is nobody at the Department of Energy who got up that morning and said, "I want to spend my day being rotten to the people of Condon, Oregon."

The project that they proposed clearly would save energy, it would save money, and it would save water.

along with Senators Cantwell, Mikulski, Cardin, Dodd, and Merkley, I am reintroducing legislation that will repeal the authority granted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to site Liquified…

On the very significant cut in hazardous, you know, fuels reduction, our additional concern is that the focus, now, is on the wildland-urban interface.

My concern this morning is that forestry takes a real pounding in this budget. My home State of Oregon is all about forests.

My concern is that this is going to be too little, too late to keep the mills open.

If this proposal goes through in its present form, we're going to lose mills, we're going to lose jobs, and some of the most hard-hit communities in our country are going to lose their futures.

I am announcing my intention to object to any unanimous consent request to proceed to legislation extending any expiring laws that does not include extension of unemployment benefits and COBRA health insurance benefits. Last night, there…

There's no question that having proposals that add up, that can be a model, you know, for the country, are critically, you know, important.

If we lose the infrastructure in eastern Oregon, which is absolutely pivotal to bringing people together, then you don't have the tools, for example, to have a real biomass, you know, industry.

The $50 million for the priority watersheds and job stabilization effort, in my view, is exactly the kind of targeting that we're going to need in the future.

We just cannot have this situation, where it seems that most of the discussion, most of the focus goes to the urban.

these fires that we're seeing in our part of the country, they are not natural fires, they are infernos that come about as a result of years and years of neglect.

I'm going to ask you, at every hearing when you're here, about what's being done to get more folks in place.