John Barrasso

I appreciate your emphasis on these critical issues and hope you're going to continue to be engaged as a senior member of this committee.

We share Senator Barrasso's commitment to improving the management of the NFS.

It's essential that we honor public involvement in the management of our National Forests.

We also need to be careful not to create public distrust by reducing some of the regulatory agency's roles.

This committee has studied these issues, now time to act before it's too late to save our treasured national forests and the local communities around them.

That's why I introduced this bill, the National Forest Jobs and Management Act. The primary purpose of the bill is to solve the forest health and rural community crisis.

The committee recognizes timber harvest is a good thing. We need to get the cut-up to help our forests and communities get healthy again.

Senator Barrasso, I too want to thank you for your work to be able to get that for us.

This bill is intended to build upon those improvements, enhance the delivery of services.

I just want to thank you for holding this hearing.

I appreciate your being here.

I think it is important that today we consider S. 919, which I have co-sponsored with you.

This position is important to the Federal Government in carrying out its trust responsibility and Mr. Logan's strong financial background, I believe, is going to serve him well.

Today we are going to be considering your bill, the Spokane Equitable Compensation Act, I know this is very important to you and to the Spokane Tribe.

I think it is important that each of you provide strong stewardship of American taxpayer dollars.

We need to continue our active engagement at the U.N. Human Rights Council to hold regimes accountable for violation of human rights.

I think item 7 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's Standing Agenda is used to attack Israel.

U.S. beef producers take great pride in providing a healthy and safe product.

This doesn't sound like you are looking for input, though.

EPA's assertion of the technical feasibility of carbon capture relies heavily on literature reviews, pilot projects and commercial facilities yet to operate.

The actions of this Administration's EPA to wipe out coal, and eventually natural gas, is costing thousands of jobs and driving up energy poverty for the most vulnerable.

The war began when President Lyndon Johnson visited with Tom Fletcher and his family on the front porch in Martin County, Kentucky.

We believe this cannot form the basis of a finding that CCS on commercial scale power plants is 'adequately demonstrated.'

It is clear that this EPA and this Administration has an agenda. And that agenda is hurting jobs, the agenda is raising energy costs and the agenda is making poverty worse in struggling communities around this country.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.