"I appreciated your testimony and your desire to teach people and different generations about respect for land and culture."
"Why should Congress not apply the same criteria to the request of Native Hawaiians as is applied to the tribes that I deal with within the contiguous United States?"
"It allows them to begin the first what I call baby steps toward that, which quite frankly is a little bit less than what other people have gotten over the years."
"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 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 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."
"What specific steps do you anticipate the Forest Service undertaking to reduce the hazardous fuel load in areas like this?"
"If Congress were to freeze spending at 2009 fiscal year levels and freeze release of the TARP funds at the end of the this fiscal year, do you believe the economy will have recovered adequately that w..."
"A quick question about government intervention in our economy, given the degree and depth of the government intervention in the economy, which is the highest since World War II, can you estimate how l..."
"suppose if we froze spending of the Federal Government's budgets at 2009 level and then let the stimulus package continue to work, would that be a way to begin to address the deficit and the debt as w..."