Nick Rahall: “does not one of those recommendations direct the BLM to clarify the agency's authority to protect valuable resources not…”

I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Hahn), a very valued member of our Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Appropriations shall not be made available for the destruction of healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros.

It is my honor to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), a former member of our powerful House Transportation Committee, who decided to go to the esteemed Ways and Means Committee.

But in these downturns in the past, we have always felt the Government is trying to help us get out of these downturns in the coal industry. That is not the feeling now.