Cynthia Lummis

Slash piles can be either burned and produce more carbon with no benefit to the economy or they can be used to produce products that augment the nation's renewable energy resources.

What are the biggest factors, Jim, in forcing the forest products industry to struggle so much?

I would ask you, almost plead with you, to look at the Bridger-Teton Forest management in Wyoming.

I want to ask unanimous consent to introduce that, Mr. Chairman.

I am eager to hear the steps that the Forest Service intends to take to mitigate the beetle epidemic and to reduce the fuel load that has continued to grow year after year.

What specific steps do you anticipate the Forest Service undertaking to reduce the hazardous fuel load in areas like this?

Healthy forests are integral to our lives and livelihoods. That is why I am so concerned about the current state of our forests.

I would be pleased to host such a hearing in Wyoming so we can visit the vast swaths of forest destroyed by beetles in my state.

I do want to renew my invitation to the Chairman to hold a field hearing to explore the issue of bark beetle destruction in greater detail.

I join the gentleman from Oregon in applauding you for holding this hearing today. It is a very important hearing, and I appreciate your doing it.

I wonder if that might work for food, where every time you turn on the TV or a radio or a billboard or you drive by a building that has a wall, you are bombarded with that message.

In Wyoming, we had a terrible methamphetamine problem, terrible, and some substance abuse problems, unrelated to meth, that were rising, alcohol being the largest.

Do your CDC studies differentiate between urban and rural areas?

Every time that a TV ad runs on our cable television station at home that says don't just do something, sit there, I go springing out of my seat because I realize all Americans watch too much TV, and we are all insufficiently exercised.

If you wonder why we have a fire problem on the national forest, we are adding tremendous amount of fuel.

But I have also spent a considerable amount of time in the private sector, and when I look at the economic challenges that are occurring now in our country they seem to be borne much more heavily by the private sector than the public…

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There are some real opportunities to use economic values of the excess and growing amount of wood on the public lands...

I did a little back-of-the-envelope calculation a couple of years ago that on just the roaded portion of the national forest we are adding roughly 4 billion cubic feet of wood a year...

I have been an employee of government, I have been an employer or a manager within government...

Congress and the administration need to work together to ensure that adequate resources are available such as making sure that agencies are using all of the tools at their disposal.

I appreciate the portions of your testimony about clearing red tape associated with filling a growing number of open positions in public land management agencies.

Are there any planned reductions in our nuclear arsenal that are going to be reflected in the President's budget when we receive more detail?

I would like to also acknowledge and applaud military efforts to work with clean coal technologies.

We are proud of FE Warren's efforts in becoming energy sustainable and doing it in a renewable fashion.