The collaborative management approach that has been suggested for Bears Ears National Monument cannot legally be done. It violates the law.

We appreciate the sustained efforts of House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, and members of the committee to develop a legislative solution to address the long-term conservation of nationally…

I was very offended by the statement that you made. That hurts very deeply.

I object to the way you have characterized our grazing.

It is up to our elected officials, such as Chairman Bishop and Commissioner Rebecca Benally, to represent their local residents and be held accountable for their land use choices.

I appreciate that kind of clarity. Some of these things are very simplistically thrown out there that really are not accurate.

We can do it because we are Congress and we write the laws. That is a guarantee for you.

Most importantly, this bill preempts arbitrary and capricious designations threatened in the final throes of the Obama administration.

By 2013, the national monument threat had spawned a collaborative effort in which Representatives Bishop and Chaffetz solicited input from stakeholders via each county in eastern Utah.

Secretary Jewell, you came to Utah seeking local input. Unfortunately, what you saw and what you heard was theater staged by radical environmentalist outsiders intent on smothering local voices.

What this bill tries to do is four major things, bring finality in four areas.

It must be nice, it must be nice to have Washington on your side.

There are shrill voices out there realizing that if we actually bring finality in this issue, they will be out of work.

I want it to be noted that this is not the hearing of this bill, it is a hearing of this bill.

if they expanded Medicaid 50,000 of my constituents would have Medicaid, if the state expanded it.

I for one in a portion of my life when I was a boy lived in a household where we didn't have access to health care.

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.

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