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During the shutdown, as has already been stated, the results were devastating for the small rural towns and cities surrounding our national parks, and we felt that very severely throughout the State.

If you love the national parks as I do and if you want to keep the national parks open as I do, and if you think it is a good idea to prepare for an uncertain future, if you want to protect small businesses and rural communities as I do…

In Utah there are five national parks, seven national monuments, two national recreation areas, six national forests. In fact, 70 percent of my State is controlled by the Federal Government.

When the Federal Government shut down in October of this last year, it seemed as if the administration used all of the lessons, frankly, from years of Chicago land style politics to do what they could to make this shutdown as painful for…

I don't understand the hostility toward cooperation with the States.

The world has learned those lessons. The free market system has learned those lessons. Government in Washington has simply not learned the lessons.

If I may begin, before we call the first panel, in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell down, and the entire world realized that large, centralized, bureaucratic entities do not work.

It is beyond time for us to explore ways in which State governments can take a more active and invested role in improving the management of the Federal lands within its borders.

The rule that we have before us is about two bills. The first bill deals with fairness for those who live in public land States as to the ability to process oil and gas leases. The second bill deals with fracking, the fracturing of oil…

As anyone who lives in a State dominated by the Federal Government knows all too well, those states are forced to play by a different set of rules.

Wildfires are a part of life in Utah and in other parts of the western United States.

We will count on you to help in that regard and to make sure that the investigation that we are conducting is completed, and completed properly.

If the IRS loses its reputation for decency and honor, it hurts everybody.

I personally believe that is going to help promote economic growth.

I intend to support both of you. I think you are excellent choices, and we will do everything we can to speed this process up as much as we can.

I appreciate that. The reason I ask that question is because we have not gotten responses that we have asked for.

Intellectual property is an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy.

I think these trade agreements are enormously important. They are going to dramatically boost economic growth in this country.