It does seem that our energy resources can, at this point, increase our own economic competitiveness and enhance our power around the world.

It's hard to comprehend, Mr. Chairman, but the Good Neighbor Forestry Act, a bipartisan bill, has lingered in this Committee now for 4 and a half years.

Thank you, Chairman.

I do look forward to working with you in this capacity.

I'm very glad to see the BLM's testimony on the Good Neighbor bill.

I hope under Senator Wyden and Senator Murkowski's leadership we can work together to move this legislation through committee and see it enacted into law.

I'm so looking forward to working with you, Senator Manchin, in your new role as Chairman of this very important subcommittee.

I think you are exactly right and I welcome the opportunity to work together to delve into this further.

Your written testimony noted that there are occasions when there is only a single tribal law enforcement officer on duty for, you know, a 1.4 million acre reservation.

I think you clearly, you know, the reference to the Sisters of Providence, I mean that was----

the President's FY 2014 Interior budget request is extremely disappointing and unfair.

I want to congratulate you. I know yesterday the President indicated his intent to nominate you for a second term.

recently the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, gave a speech in which she said she didn't realize how complicated it would be to implement the President's health care law. She didn't attribute this to all of the…

I have raised the issue of these backlogs with your predecessor, Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, and former Secretary Salazar.

How can this be called equitable? How is this putting the needs of Indian Country first?

I have raised with you the matter of including morbidity and mortality rates in the distribution formula for Contract Health Services.

I ask that the Congress increase the Indian tribal budget funding levels to match the Administration's budget request.

We cannot implement it if we do not have the officers on the ground.

This budget represents the Administration's policies with respect to funding for important programs for tribes and their members.

I sincerely hope that we can move forward on this compromise, get these small hydro projects underway by getting this bill signed into law.

It just doesn't make sense then to me that and to many other Americans for the Park Service to support obtaining further properties, further expenses and liabilities when the Park Service can't open parks on time and can't maintain their…

Thank you also for allowing my bill and its House counterpart to be considered in this hearing, this Barrasso-Risch-Tipton bill named the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act.

When I see legislation like this with unanimous support for land management policy from the elected delegation, I believe it's significant.

this amendment protects the privacy and safety of law-abiding gun owners. When government officials release gun ownership information, it puts many lives at risk. This includes the lives of lawful gun owners, the lives of law enforcement…

I move to reconsider the vote and to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment No. 730 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior…