"The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program I think is a good example of how government can be a partner with rural communities."
"It is nice to have an agency come in where they are told they are loved."
"I think there is a lot of innovation and technical development that is happening and it can lead to a lot of good American jobs."
"We should be skeptical of government lending programs because private markets are generally better at allocating credit and it is easy, maybe even reasonable, to become cynical about our political pro..."
"Stephen Fincher has set the example. He came to Congress as a skeptic of Ex-Im, asked questions, voted 'no' initially, replaced that skepticism with facts, and came to see the critical need for the Ba..."
"There are a lot of folks in the area I represent that are grateful to this Committee for increasing the resources available to the IHS."
"I would associate myself with the comments from Mr. Cole about the importance of our treaty and trust obligations to our tribes."
"I also want to piggyback on something that Ms. McCollum asked about."
"I think we need to do more on this front in part because we have a treaty and trust obligation."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks for being here, Madam Administrator. I also want to thank you for coming out to Puget Sound this past summer and for the work you and your Agency are doing to help ..."
"I was pleased to see that the President's budget included an increase for both the National Estuary Program and for the Puget Sound Geographic Fund."
"I am concerned that the BIA budget does not request any additional funds for the operation of tribal detention facilities."