I would defend Grand Junction is a wonderful place, a wonderful community, a robust city.

of course, the Senate is back in session after the August work period, where all of us were able to go home--and in the case of Colorado, go corner to corner--to visit with constituents, to have meetings, to talk about those issues that…

on behalf of Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner, on behalf of Congressman Tipton and Governor Jared Polis

This is a good move for BLM, this is a good move for taxpayers, and this is a great move for the West.

I believe this move of Bureau of Land Management headquarters out West is long overdue.

I think every place in Colorado is wonderful.

I think a lot of us would be happy. But it sounds like this will actually be an improvement in both accountability and efficiency.

Keeping our mothers and babies safe and healthy is vital.

I represent the great area of Evergreen, as well as Western Jefferson County, and a number of other counties in the 2nd Congressional District in Colorado.

on behalf of Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner, on behalf of Congressman Tipton and Governor Jared Polis

The point is Congress makes decisions about the disposal of lands.

I appreciate a lot of the explanations that you are giving.

Many of us look at it entirely differently, that the role of the BLM is to work with the public, to work with the American people.

I am concerned that we are seeing the potential to try to drive political partisanship into something that is actually trying to be able to direct what is going to be good policy.

In the last Congress, I introduced legislation to be able to have the BLM conduct a study on the opportunity to be able to move those headquarters out to the West.

The idea that BLM leadership shouldn't be influenced by the communities that live, work and play on our public lands is misguided.

Congressmen and women, on behalf of the people of western Colorado, I encourage you to support the move of the BLM headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado--a place where there is actually BLM land.

I personally fully support the BLM's decision to be able to relocate the headquarters out West.