Thank you, Madam Chair.

if the private sector is not willing to, does that tell you something about it?

the real question is who bears the risk?

I think that people should be able to enroll before they provide documentation.

I really think it would actually discourage people from enrolling.

Unspent funds should be returned.

I have introduced legislation such that no president, this president or any other president, is able to sidestep the legislative process, the people's representatives, and designate national monuments without the approval of the state…

If, in fact, a Federal Government that has a $19 trillion debt and a $12 billion backlog in the National Park Service to maintain the existing parks and monuments cannot fully fund the build-out and the maintenance of this national…

I want to make sure that what is not lost in this hearing is the tremendous generosity that Ms. Quimby and her family have offered to give this land that they rightly own to the people.

the Antiquities Act, which we have discussed here today, was designated to set aside and protect small pieces of land like Indian burial grounds.

Thank you. Chairman Bishop, if the owners of this property give this land to the Federal Government...

Thank you all very much for being here today.

We have this mixed-up idea in the Federal Government anymore where we confuse this preservation with conservation.

There are no downsides to a healthy forest.

It is a wonderful place to live, to vacation, to move you and your wife here, Mr. Bishop.

We need to make sure that we get this right.

I cannot and will not support any proposal that threatens our good-paying, full-time forest products jobs in the state of Maine.

This is not a political issue for me. This is about our families. This is about our jobs.