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I believe that states have a significant role to solve problems of most of the issues that we talk about today.

These supposed protections, supposed protections that are often invoked by people who are wanting to promote the idea of a national monument, quickly deteriorate.

The process involved with the PLI is, in fact, the right way.

Taking care of ancestral land, protecting and preserving it for the next generation, is not optional for many Native Americans.

If the President issues a proclamation under the Antiquities Act saying I, President Barack Obama, hereby designate the Bears Ears as a national monument...

There is no law, there is no judicial precedent that guarantees that Native Americans will have continued access to or use of their sacred sites on this land, if that land is, in fact, designated as a national monument.

If you really care about the land this is not some kind of a political tomahawk to be used.

We still have animus anger and distrust for the Federal Government because of that lack of process and having something done to us that we have evidence of visceral anger still today because of that process.

One of the biggest lessons, I think, we've learned over time is that local input is critical to getting success and to get buy in to whatever the solution is to the problem at hand.

But the good news is that there is a better way, and it is called the Public Lands Initiative (PLI) which is a piece of legislation that has been written to achieve what a monument designation cannot.

Reforming the IOAS exception through remedial legislation is long overdue, and we urge Congress to act.

I would simply say that I think you would find the mutual bipartisan approach to achieve the goal. I don't think anybody is in opposition to this. The reality is, in nearly 30 years, the funding level hasn't changed. It is very modest. It…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 29, line 12, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $1,500,000)''. Page 30, line 3, after the…

Requiring U.S. companies to provide access to government agencies would not prevent foreign app developers from creating encryption software for jailbreak phones.

I believe it's an issue that Congress and the executive branch have to approach with a great deal of prudence.

I also appreciate your commitment to protecting the rights that we hold dear as Americans, and our security.

The pairing of new wilderness and other conservation designations with broadly supported land exchanges

The pairing of new wilderness and other conservation designations with broadly supported land exchanges