I encourage my colleagues on this committee to support this critical legislation.
I want to thank Representative Ros-Lehtinen and Representative Deutch for their leadership in introducing this bill.
I appreciated what you said earlier about the overcriminalization issue and noting that although that is not the precise...
I think you would agree, has suffered significant reputational damage due to its officers, its agents, engaging in misco...
I think that is one of the reasons why we have to be concerned here, one of the reasons why FLPMA favors, encourages and...
We feel like we can do better as a state in managing our law enforcement affairs than the Federal Government.
I have a statement for the record that has been submitted by Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska.
And to the extent it can achieve that, it saves the taxpayer money.
It is called the Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act.
I think to that extent in those instances BLM law enforcement agents are failing to do their job appropriately.
That would not be Armageddon. It would not produce an Armageddon type environment. Dogs and cats living together in the ...
We are not talking about a slight difference there. That is a very significant difference.
I think it is important from time to time to look at whether what we have created makes sense.
I think we all seem to agree... that there should be more local law enforcement involvement in this area.
Yet nothing in federal law precludes them from using local law enforcement and in some ways it encourages it.
it's a shame when our entire profession is disparaged on the basis of only eight or nine hundred thousand bad apples.
Former Attorney General Ed Meese and I have urged Congress to adopt a mistake of law defense...
Given that profile of activity why are armed BLM law enforcement agents wearing flak jackets, no less, executing search ...
