Political Quotes

As Chairman of this Subcommittee, I have worked tirelessly to ensure the perspectives of local communities are included in both the decision-making process and the subsequent management of our Federal lands.

One of the bills we will be considering today, Representative Franklin's bipartisan H.R. 8206, embodies this ethic by preventing an unpopular wilderness designation from being established in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.

there is a direct relationship between our continuing failure to harvest timber and the historically catastrophic wildfire years we are experiencing.

I would just say, when the President says you need to look at something, they are probably saying, 'Do it.'