Whether to alter the terms of Federal retirement benefits, salaries, or other terms of employment is up to Congress to decide.
We have seen, unfortunately, a lot of overreach by the agencies recently, with regard to public lands.
Thank you, to our witnesses today who have taken the time to testify on these seven bills.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I won't be as courteous as yours; I have a rather lengthy opening statement.
Mr. Grijalva. Thank you. Mr. May, Representative Poe's bill renames the District of Columbia's World War I Memorial.
But if the legislation exempts the state from having to carry out any of the negotiated mitigation...
The Commemorative Works Act states very clearly that new memorials should not encroach upon existing memorials or change the message.
In other words, didn't everybody included in the NRA know that local land management agencies, Arizona Game and Fish, and community members ...
I am going to have other questions.
And the six-month issue makes a blanket legislative policy for the entire Nation.
Regardless of circumstances, regardless of situations on the ground, and, quite frankly, regardless of community opinion.
And Ms. Recce, your testimony talks about the recreational shooting closures at Ironwood, the Ironwood National Monument, the Sonoran Desert...
Let me ask you about the Flake bill. The bill permits the closure and restriction of national monument lands by the BLM for specific reasons...
Under this legislation, what would happen to that process?
Great. Thank you. And I want to apologize in advance. I do have to leave, as well, afterwards.
I think that it behooves Congress to step in and make sure that it is done in the most deliberative way possible.
the lands would--what would happen if it didn't materialize into a shooting range?
Yes, let me. Mr. Ratcliffe, thank you. Can you talk to us about the current status of the Mohave land conveyance, and what has happened with...
