03/19/2012
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"Mr. Claus, The Tongass used to produce about 450 million board feet of timber a year, but last year produced less than 30 million board feet from federal lands."
"Under the President's proposed Environmental Protection Agency budget the EPA will continue its unprecedented high funding levels."
"I believe you would not tolerate it if scientists within the agency released scientific data to the public and to the Congress which was suppressed data, suppressed data that contradicted their study ..."
"I can tell you, Mr. Secretary, I think that killing jobs in the United States, which I believe this will do, to earn international applause is bad policy."