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I must admit, I am a little frustrated sometimes. We will call for the Administration to do something, on the Executive Branch to do something, and we ask them to do so much stuff that it does not happen.

I am trying to understand why that happens.

We do not have a person in charge of Congress.

I think like many that serve with me, we are discouraged by the high levels of waste, fraud, and abuse that were associated with our Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) relief efforts.

I want to thank you and GAO for the extensive work that you do in, if you will, accounting for what is happening in our government, those things that are measured, or those things you can control.

Then help me understand why you wouldn't hold a single public meeting.

To be clear, then, you are saying states with significant impact by this rule didn't need to be heard from, and that that was adequate. Is that what you are telling me?

Do you not feel that you have missed something here by not coming to the people in these good areas and getting their input?

Thank you for holding today's hearing and for the opportunity to share our support for this legislation.

I am writing in strong support of Congressman John Curtis' legislation, H.R. 3397.

I am incredibly surprised by how this rule came forward because of how it is established, and it is ignoring the long-set precedent that ranchers take every day to manage lands, and not asking for their input.

They are taking away all public input, potentially, in how they are going to create intact landscapes, which means the public will have no input, and they can immediately implement it overnight, which is not the authority of BLM.

When the former Congressman over here was chatting about conspiracy theories, this whole proposed rule is a conspiracy theory.

What is interesting to me is that, if you look at BLM and what their mission is, is that it specifically is to use the land, it is a land management agency, and it is supposed to consider conservation in every activity that it conducts.

I just want to point out that we are doing a very good job of preserving ourselves, and I am not sure that there is anything in this rule that will do a better job of preserving in the area.

I think my question is what would have been preserved, and particularly in the south, that was not preserved because this rule was not in place?

I am, unfortunately, out of time. Hopefully, you interpret from my results that we don't feel heard, that we feel like we are doing a very good job of conservation ourselves.

I will meet with your scheduler immediately, as soon as you are ready.