Cynthia Lummis

We greatly appreciate Representative Lummis for seeking to remedy this problem with the River Paddling Protection Act.

I really do appreciate the opportunity to present legislation to provide for paddling in Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the National Elk Refuge.

This bill does not prohibit Park Superintendents from proposing park management plans on paddling or restricting access in their annual compendiums.

These groups, of which many were instrumental in designing the Snake River Headwaters as wild and scenic, expected the new management plan for those rivers to include a public discussion on the benefits of paddling.

This legislation is in response to the Comprehensive River Management Plan environmental assessment that was published for public comment under the Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act of 2009.

This bill's intent is to vest river management decisions in the Superintendents of the park where they can be properly considered.

I very much appreciate the legislation that he is introducing today and I am strongly supportive of it.

Wyoming's payments to the U.S. Treasury for oil, gas, and coal royalties nearly pays for the entire BLM budget. And I would point out that, contrary to what the gentleman said about the increase in production on Federal land, between the…

Given the current budgetary outlook of skyrocketing entitlement spending crowding out discretionary funding, it is imperative to maximize the value of limited tax dollars.

Coal is our country's most abundant and affordable energy sources.

The technology is unproven but will suddenly appear and the prices that won't go up

If EPA is allowed to twist the definition of 'adequately demonstrated' to include yet-to-be-proven technologies for power plants, there is also little to stop EPA from doing the same for other manufacturers like refiners, cement or steel…

This regulation effectively bans the building of new coal plants, and fulfills President Obama's campaign promise to bankrupt coal companies.

I do wish the EPA was here today, at least to listen to our concerns, and I consider an invitation extended on September 27th for a hearing that is occurring about a month later to be pretty good time to prepare.

So it is a fair statement for me to say that storage is needed in order to add more total water capacity to conveyances.

What happens in California is important to my State because we are at the headwaters, and a lot of the water in the Green River flows into the Colorado and ends up in your neck of the woods.

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My State of Wyoming is projected to have the highest average premiums under ObamaCare of any State in the Nation that is subject to the Federal exchange; by far, the highest rate of any State in the Nation. Is it any wonder that because my…

The Congressional Budget Office informed us again yesterday what we already know about our job here in Congress, which is that we must reform entitlement programs in order to save them. We must save them so we can save ourselves from this…

Does any of the panel know whether the Forest Service has a disposal list, as does the BLM?

Because, as you know, the Federal Government finds ways to limit States' activities on their own land, as long as it is trapped in a Federal designation of any kind.

Are you aware of any instances where the Endangered Species Act has prevented either coal mining or oil and gas development?

You get a lot more common sense the closer to the ground you get.

Absolutely they should, and that was a big, big focus of my testimony.

It absolutely is affecting hunting opportunities and affecting people's ability to harvest elk, for example.