I hope that never happens again, whether it is the EPA or any other Federal agency...

I want to do a couple of things, and what I am going to sort of walk through is what we are seeing in the numbers. There is a sense of theater around here that I am trying to break through, so let's see if we can have some fun with some…

As government expands, our liberties contract.

Under Secretary Haaland, BLM has taken the important step to come up with a proposal to balance the uses of public lands.

I want to make it perfectly clear I am against this rule and so are my constituents.

The proposed rule is long overdue. It is a long-overdue update to how we manage our public lands.

My amendment is needed to lower the economic threshold of the REINS Act to $50 million, requiring congressional approval to go into effect. That will lead to more votes in this body, and that is what we do. We are Members of Congress. That…

This Constitution, this country was formulated on real basis.

Public lands are not just a backdrop for oil rigs and mining pits.

We are the people that are making the laws, not you.

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I am very disappointed in what I have seen.

Well, tell that to the Navajo allottees who saw their livelihoods and financial well-being dragged from them from one of their own Indigenous Secretary of the Interior, once again magnifying the old adage, 'I am here from the Federal…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 17, line 13, strike ``$100 million'' and insert ``$50 million''. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 495…

I think more and more states need to take the BLM and the Forest Service to court.

I don't want to repeat the 1872 law of mining, where we get to do nothing but give mining everything they want.

I think, first of all, you have to go through these four aspects. You haven't done them.

This hearing is another step in the Majority's effort to undermine the multiple-use mandate of the Bureau of Land Management.