How do you currently manage Forest Service land around there and how will the Wild and Scenic designation affect that?

Does the Park Service headquarters support implementation of Alternative B as described in the recent record of decision?

Senator Murray and I introduced this legislation to designate 14.3 miles of a segment of Illabot Creek as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system.

We certainly want to make sure that, in the new healthcare reform bill, that that transparency is there.

I think it's critically important that we have transparency in drug pricing.

I certainly believe there's price-gouging going on, and we shouldn't have Federal agencies be the last to figure it out.

I think that's a key issue particularly as it relates to net neutrality and to make sure that someone doesn't take the Internet and hijack it.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue as you've just articulated it's long overdue.

isn't it really--my colleagues need to ask questions and I will call on Senator Barrasso next--isn't it really the case that we are chasing our tails here?

I certainly opposed media consolidation, particularly with cross ownership, and I do not think it is really the way that we are going to save newspapers.

I am here to ask questions in person, and I think it is an important hearing.

Another area is white spaces, opening up broadcast white spaces to fixed wireless and personal portable devices.

I think that is a very appropriate partnership.

An independent review team has said that the NPOESS program has an extraordinary low probability of success.

For example? So strengthening the management of the program, besides having the White House and a key person in the White House taking the lead, what else are you doing?

this Committee is very well aware of Coast Guard needs that are part of the Nation's national security, but when we are presented with boats that don't float or holes that have to be realigned, no one has been served by that process.

I want, obviously, each of the individual agencies to help in the resolution of this, but part of the problem is a $12.5 billion acquisition program divided by three agencies is not the way to get the oversight and leadership to make sure…

we think a more coordinated effort at the national level would be helpful

this is a budget increase of 30-some percent, and while we want to make sure that the program is developed, at the same time asking for the additional resources without the improved structure and decisionmaking will be a disaster.

protecting our oceans and coasts is an environmental and economic imperative.

Well, since NOAA implemented this process, we want to see if NOAA is living by the process.

I just want to make sure that NOAA is committed to funding this program in future years.

I wonder if you could give me the number of what a full 100 percent requirement funding would be for NOAA.

We need to pass climate legislation to reduce the CO2 impact that is creating this problem as it relates to the oceans.

So, how will you establish clear program priorities?