These two states have roughly 10 million more acres of BLM land than your two states combined.

Well, tell that to the Navajo allottees who saw their livelihoods and financial well-being dragged from them from one of their own Indigenous Secretary of the Interior, once again magnifying the old adage, 'I am here from the Federal…

I am very disappointed in what I have seen.

As government expands, our liberties contract.

We are the people that are making the laws, not you.

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I think more and more states need to take the BLM and the Forest Service to court.

Public lands are not just a backdrop for oil rigs and mining pits.

My amendment is needed to lower the economic threshold of the REINS Act to $50 million, requiring congressional approval to go into effect. That will lead to more votes in this body, and that is what we do. We are Members of Congress. That…

I don't want to repeat the 1872 law of mining, where we get to do nothing but give mining everything they want.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 17, line 13, strike ``$100 million'' and insert ``$50 million''. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 495…

Conservation must be part of that multiple-use equation.

Expeditious action on the Compacts by this Committee and others is essential.

the way that this renewal has been framed, where this kind of $700 million of undivided money that is not really dedicated to nuclear, there is no apology, is, I think, perceived as a lack of respect for what they have had to go through.

One of most important tools that the United States has in supporting democracy and good governance while denying China the ability to project strategic power throughout the vast Pacific region.

how grateful we are for the role these insular areas have played for this country

listening to the Pacific Island countries about climate change, even if it is just listening, along with the other issues, I think that does go a long way.

the Freely Associated States are among the low-lying island and atoll countries in the region, and they are directly threatened by rising sea levels.