Rob Bishop actually said...

"Last year I asked the Interior Department for copies of communications between the National Alaska Conservation System and certain lobbying and political advocacy organization."

"If you are going to have these fires all of the time, and it is predictable where it is, why do you not go in and thin it and use that biomass?"

"So you are recommending that we burn Mississippi. Is that what you are saying?"

"I find that just absolutely incredible. I guess we do not mind the business, but, for goodness sakes, if you are going to have all of these regulations, then why do you not become sufficient?"