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It aids in the fight against wildfire, and that is because we have been able to go around the Federal Government.

They are cutting our cubic feet that we can get in timber contracts.

We do. But I would say the Black Hills National Forest is known as one of the best-managed forests in our country.

My family has lived off the land for generations. I was raised by a dad who often reminded me, 'Don't sell land, Kristi. God isn't making any more land.'

This rule is just one of many which highlights an example of an overreaching, unelected bureaucracy attempting to perpetuate radical environmental policies.

I stand with Representative John Curtis of Utah, the sponsor of H.R. 3397, and his fellow Representatives who are co-sponsoring the legislation.

To go out there and to create a mechanism such as a conservation lease that could be bought by third parties, not even necessarily by people in our own country, and give them access and authority over these lands, it is dangerous.

When a country controls our food supply and our energy supply, they will control us, and American freedom will be gone.

Our enemies and those who hate the United States of America may never need to fire a shot to take us over.

Our farmers and our ranchers care about our land. They are stewards.

Mr. Chairman, I think we all know a lot of politicians who will be whatever you want them to be.

If the Federal Government, the bureaucracy in the Federal Government is truly concerned about conservation, then let the people who know how to do conservation actually do conservation.

If we aren't able to treat invasive species on our Federal estate, there is a grass called cheatgrass, there is another one called Japanese brome.

Kristi, we don't sell land because God is not making any more land.

I want to specifically thank Senator Mike Rounds for his input on the best uses of these funds.

In my home State of Minnesota, Native Americans account for 13 percent of people experiencing homelessness, despite being only about 1 percent of the State's overall population.

Housing shortages and homelessness are experienced on Tribal land when families crowd into homes not nearly big enough for all the people living there.

We have also heard about the importance of reauthorizing the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act, or NAHASDA.