If I were a basketball referee, I would be fired because I have been pretty liberal with the clock.

I deeply appreciate your testimony and your presence here today and your friendship.

We respectfully ask that you consider investment in our cultural resources, the preservation of our great American heritage.

I want to thank you all for being here, and in light of the lengthy day ahead, I want to first of all thank the commissioners for their volunteer work.

Could any of you answer why does the Forest Service want to take these water rights away from the private owners?

Are there not tools under the ESA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service itself that provides for conservation and habitat management plans for threatened but nonlisted species or prior to the threatened status being placed on that specie?

I would also like to point out that under NEPA, when counties are consulted, the word that is used in NEPA is they are to 'cooperate' with the counties.

The Federal agencies are to cooperate with the counties. Not collaborate. Not coordinate. Cooperate.

You can also look at the comparison and think Cheney 2012.

They don't believe that the solution to our economic crisis is to nationalize health care.

I think that the vote last night is something that should send a clear message to both parties in that regard.

I think we are a party that's clearly rebuilding.

I think conservatives across the country are extremely mobilized. I think you're seeing -- conservatives aren't just Republicans and I think that conservatives are people who believe in limited government.

Well, look, I think that in New York 23, the Republicans, you know, had a pretty chaotic set of circumstances, a pretty chaotic process. The process of selecting the candidate, who was a Republican candidate, that didn't involve frankly…

People want to know that their elected officials understand, you know, that the American people know better how to spend their money than the government does.

I think you saw Rahm Emanuel say exactly that, that you should never let a good crisis go to waste.

Well, look, I think that, in New York 23, the Republicans, you know, had a pretty chaotic set of circumstances, a pretty chaotic process, a process of selecting the candidate who was the Republican candidate that didn't involve, frankly…

They want to know that their elected officials understand, you know, that the American people know better how to spend their money than the government does.

I think that, you know, these issues, particularly given the economic downturn we're facing and the fact that the president seems to want to use the downturn as an excuse to put in place sort of some drastic, very radical reforms to our…

I think it's something that you see pretty normally when a party is in opposition and has lost like we have.

I think we are a party that is clearly rebuilding. I mean, we really lost pretty significantly in 2008.

Well, I think, you know, you saw Rahm Emanuel say exactly that, that you should never let a good crisis go to waste.

That is exactly the concern they have, so thank you for that.

Why don't we just say let's place a cap on carbon emissions so the President can go to Copenhagen and say we have placed a cap on our emissions.

I wanted to mention also that this morning the Wyoming Stock Growers Association joined the list of fellow farmers and ranchers around this country that are opposed to this bill, and see only increases in their costs of operation as…