Because we do actually have a law, the Antilobbying Act, makes it a Federal crime to use appropriated money to influence, quote, 'in any manner a Member of Congress, a jurisdiction...
I have done an awful lot--and by the way, you have been helpful--touring the timber land and learning an awful lot in th...
Well, in my background memo, one of the things the staff listed for me a number of different standards.
You were talking about how the agencies, particularly over time, have really become, I would say, a little more vague in...
An enormous amount of law being written by the agencies.
We cannot afford to pay the costs anymore of these overreaching rules that have no benefit to them.
But in Federal, you get the approval. And then there is another chance, really, for litigation.
Those forests that are managed where we actually allow timber harvesting are far healthier.
You really do not need the Federal Government butting in and creating high levels of uncertainty.
good neighbor authority is really moving more toward the type of approval process, sort of the one-stop approval process
President Obama, when he was a candidate, was talking about his proposed cap-and-trade policy. And he said, if enacted, ...