John Barrasso

I look at this and say we must prevent the practice of fire borrowing and prioritize funding for treatment activities to reduce future wildlife suppression costs.

The Administration seems intent on wanting more money for a fire cure while refusing to engage, I believe, in any serious land management fire prevention reforms.

The Forest Service has, I believe, lost its direction and its purpose.

So often those who oppose active management of our forests claim hazardous fuel projects, timber production or thinning activities will destroy watershed health and wildlife habitat.

I am concerned with the ever increasing need to fire borrow money from fire prevention activities in the declining health of our national forests.

If we are going to increase fire prevention activities that Congress needs to direct and mandate results and outcomes.

I think it is disappointing to people here who are listening in on this that we cannot really get an answer to the question from the Administration of which of these states does not measure up.

If you could actually find any time that they have made things easier, if you could submit that for the record.

I would say as Chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, 500 percent could be five times the amount of a very little amount, just a little bit more, because we continue to hear significant stories of inability of the Indian tribes and on…

There would be no incentive at all.

We would like for you to submit any data that you used, as part of the hearing record, because we are just trying to figure out the basis of BLM's statement that the rule will not reduce oil and gas production on Federal lands.

I think it is inexcusable for any Federal agency to be in that situation.

The rule is counterproductive to that goal.

I continue to believe that the BLM's rule is a solution in search of a problem.

If BLM wants to be a good neighbor to the people of Wyoming and other Western states, I think it must not only listen to their concerns but be responsive to them.

We urge this subcommittee to pass legislation to roll back the rule.

So basically we call it spacing them out, or for instance, the east half might be Federal.

Why is BLM infringing on state and tribal authority?

That to me says that the BLM's final rule is redundant and unnecessary.

Thank you much, Senator Daines.

The people of Wyoming want these jobs, and I will fight to keep them in our state.

BLM has finalized a costly rule with no justification.

The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act is about ensuring that tribal governments have the same rights as state and local governments.

This amendment completely defeats the purpose of the bill, which is to ensure that EPA actions are based on the best publicly available science that can be verified by independent experts.

I appreciate that S. 544, the Secret Science Reform Act, has been placed on this markup.