I live right next door in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the HollyFrontier Refinery, which just because of the small refiners exemption and the inability to get that exemption, we lost 200 jobs because that oil refinery is being converted into a…

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, and, Chairman Powell, thanks so much for appearing before the Committee today.

today I am pleased to recognize Senator Henry ``Hank'' Coe, who has retired from the Wyoming State Senate after 31 years of dedicated service and over 40 years of public service to Wyoming. A Cody, WY native, Senator Coe has shown his…

it is the privilege of a lifetime to represent the people of Wyoming in this great deliberative body. I genuinely look forward to joining each of you to make a difference for the American people and to uphold my solemn oath to support and…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Rouzer). I also want to thank my former committee chairman on the House Agriculture Committee, now the ranking member, Mr. Peterson, for his support of this bill, as well as Chairman Conaway…

I thank Mr. Rouzer for allowing me to do something I should have done, but Mr. Walz did it for me. That is to thank my staff, especially Jimmy Ward, for all of his hard work on this bill. He made sure that we continued to be moving this…

It is a tough week for Wyoming. Wyoming is the land of high altitudes, low multitudes, and great attitudes. We have the smallest population in the Nation, and yet, geographically, we are one of the largest States in the Nation; so everyone…

This process that Mr. Bishop and Mr. Chaffetz have initiated has actually spawned a similar process in Wyoming.

Did you cancel the research because you got sued?

We are hurting our natural resources, our trees, our grass, and our water.

I am proud of the work that they have done.

We could be implementing policies that will further deteriorate the quality of public lands for generations to come.

We have to totally rethink the way that we are managing public lands.

To suggest that there is not a better way than having the Federal Government in Washington, DC manage land is a little shocking.

I am begging you to visit your constituents in Boulder who are at the Savory Institute.

The system that we implemented in the 1970s has been such a detriment to the resource.

One of the things we do is through our own Department of Labor rules, we have a one-size-fits-all regulation that prevents it from being economically viable to hire herders to be out with livestock on the open range or in forests.

do you think there are ways that we could apply some of these new scientific discoveries on old grazing practices that could be useful in managing Federal lands in the future?

What is inspiring and, I believe, hopeful about your testimony is, Mr. Shelton, what you noted near the end of your testimony, is this is something that conservatives and liberals can find some agreement on and move forward in a way that…

Well, I cannot express enough my gratitude that you both traveled all this way and prepared testimony and have presented your thoughts to this committee and for the record.

Well, that is just a segment of the Ted talk. I recommend that you see it in its entirety; it is very impressive.

This is the beginning of a dialogue. We are now 15, 16 years into this 21st century and have a long way to go to absorb and understand the scientific growth that you understand and how to use it for the betterment of the land and water…

And now I want to ask each of you to spend 5 minutes with concluding about questions that you wish you would have been asked but weren't, statements that you want on the record for policymakers...

I hope this is the first of many opportunities for Congress to begin to use the information that you have provided today to produce on-the-ground results that will allow us to hand our children and our children's children a better…

I thank the gentleman from Texas. Texas is a State that has very little Federal land. And the fact that he took the reins as subcommittee chairman for the Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and has taken such an…