John Barrasso

To me, this demonstrates clear failure of a policy that was established to provide for the recovery of imperiled plants and animals.

I don't have the authority to manage grizzly bears or any other species in my State.

You know, I asked Director Ashe about moving targets.

I think government ought to be held to a much better standard than what we are seeing coming from this agency and this Administration.

I think there are many other ways that we could involve the citizens.

I question the need for any advisory committee at all.

They've been nothing but a rubber stamp for agency policy.

The economies in many States, including my home State of Wyoming, are going to be devastated by this.

It sounds to me that you are making it up as you go, and you are in charge of everything.

The EPA caused this disaster. That is what Senator Bennet says and I agree with him.

That is not the law of the land, is it? The law talks about navigable waters and the Federal Government.

I want to thank all of you for being here today, for your very, very helpful testimony.

I quite honestly think this should a key priority at the Federal level.

It's critical that the working circle for these operations needs to be probably less than 50, 75 miles.

It is not just for firefighters, but for communities as well, safety across the board.

I think your point about a durable solution is the key one to take away from here today.

I think you eluded to that a bit. The LA Times won a Pulitzer Prize, because they had a whole series of articles a number of years back about, kind of, the blank check approach to suppression spending.

So with these numbers in mind, do each of you agree that we must increase the pace of treatment using both prescribed fire, mechanical methods and other things to reduce the severity and the size of wildfires?

We are seeing firsthand how extremely detrimental wild land fires are to families and communities.

The U.S. Forest Service had a report a couple years ago. They are talking about over 65 million acres of National Forest system lands that are high or very high risk of catastrophic wildfires.

It is focused on clean energy and energy legislation which will actually help our economy and help our country because we all want reliable, clean and affordable energy.

U.S. emissions are only 15 percent of global emissions. The rest of the world puts out 85 percent of the emissions.

The emissions in this country have been on the downturn for the last 10 years.

To the point of the Senator from Massachusetts who said, where is your plan, under Lisa Murkowski, Chairman of the Energy Committee, we just passed a bipartisan energy bill, clean energy bill.

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