And the regulations that are coming out of your organization and the Administration relating to those jobs and those communities which will have higher unemployment.
Is that the philosophy you see coming out of this Administration?
The ability that we have to implement policies and have agreement on those policies with rules to follow later has been essential for us to ...
Well, the Utility MACT vote is set to occur this week.
I think that you underestimate the cost, you overestimate the benefits and that the cost to these communities of people being out of work is...
Most of that development, as Senator Inhofe has said, has been on private land, not public land.
EPA has indicated that it expects all future fossil fueled power plants to use natural gas rather than coal.
If you are for natural gas development, do you think that we have to change something in the law then, to prevent these groups from blocking...
Last December, the Committee received testimony from Indian tribes about the effects of taxation on Indian reservations.
This hearing, I think, hopefully, will build, as you have said, upon past hearings.
I want to thank you for holding the hearing. I am going to keep my opening statement brief so we can proceed to the witnesses.