Cynthia Lummis

I look forward to finding out how the Department of the Interior intends to respond to these challenges in a fiscally realistic way.

Obviously, the energy sector is facing huge challenges right now.

A huge portion of the energy in this country comes from these areas managed by the Department of the Interior.

Thank you, Chairman Bishop, for holding this hearing regarding the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior.

We are unable to produce the wealth of this country in a way that can emphasize the importance of having clean, reliable, redundant energy.

The rules are putting people out of work.

We are officially back in recession, with only four other states. And it is because, in large part I would argue, of the policies of the Department of the Interior.

Attacking this budget request, without producing an alternative, requires almost no work at all, and even less courage.

I believe in the short term that is an essential component to moving forward.

I hope he can help the committee as we look to work on legislation to advance good governance as well as fiscal transparency and accountability.

We hope, Mr. Weiss, that you can help the committee as we continue to work toward legislation to advance good governance, as well as fiscal transparency and accountability.

And that would allow for some taking of sea lions to help reduce their numbers so the salmonids have an opportunity to mature.

Did I hear you say that since the Marine Mammal Protection Act passed, that sea lions have increased six-fold?

The soil itself is a natural filter for this water. These are the kind of things that States' experts know, and their expertise should be inserted into any rulemaking process. That is part of the reason that I support the STREAM Act. I…

This is my first introduction to this subject, so please bear with me and be kind of creative here.

I want to know what kind of milestones, specific milestones, we would have to enact prior--as conditions precedent to authorizing a bankruptcy.

I want to let you know that the transportation bill that the President signed into law has a December 10 deadline on making Wyoming whole for past raids on its AML money.

That check needs to be cut and delivered to Wyoming tomorrow--tomorrow--pursuant to the bill the President signed last week.

Last week, the President signed into law a fix to prevent the raiding of AML money, which requires some of these payments to be restored to Wyoming.

I look forward to you helping our committee get more information about Animas, and I look forward to having a discussion about how the POWER + Program could be used to actually remediate and reclaim.

Thank you for holding this hearing to follow up on the EPA's Animas River spill.

Unfortunately, when we finally did get the independent report from Bureau of Reclamation, it didn't hold anyone accountable or find anyone at fault.

I appreciate your testimony today. I know that it has been challenging to get this scheduled.

So while you're reviewing the 94,000 comments, you are willing to reengage the 9 of 10 States that chose to disengage because the process was not cooperating agency status in their minds?

While you're going through those 94,000 comments, and if you had an opportunity to reach out to these 9 of 10 States that withdrew from the process because there was no cooperation, it was a command and control process masquerading as…