I have to be honest with you, I don't know the specifics of that piece of property, but I will tell you this...

There is a difference in the process in which we are going with this.

Congressman Bishop wrote about this in an op-ed piece saying that it is in Article 4 of the United States Constitution.

When we come back for a markup on this bill, we will have a nice discussion on Utah's equalization formula for education.

That is just such a bizarre verb ever to be used.

Earlier this year, HR146, the Omnibus Public lands package which was signed into law by President Obama, proved to be a much better way to protect our public lands including wilderness values.

I appreciate that, and I also want to tell you, and I think I mentioned this briefly as we talked down there, just to reemphasize how much I appreciate the BLM personnel, the professional staff on the ground in Utah.

The idea that SUWA and its lackey, Mr. Hinchey, represents the voice of rural Utah is like saying King George III represented the American colonists on issues of taxation--it just isn't so!

The idea that SUWA, and its lackey Mr. Hinchey, represents the voice of rural Utah is like saying King George III represented the American colonies on issues of taxation.

However, the proposed Red Rock Wilderness bill targeting Utah devastates our local economies even more so during the economic recession.

This is not what we elected President Obama to do. Things in Washington, D.C., are seriously off track.

An overwhelming majority of Utahans, and Americans for that matter, have rejected the Federal one size fits all approach to wilderness in Utah.

If the end goal is to further inflate the acreage in this bill thus allowing the organizations to exist in perpetuity, then it is going to be a long, rocky road.

In fact, all of that money and all of that effort has produced exactly zero acres of new wilderness in Utah.

We have listened to all interested parties and especially to those stakeholders with the most at stake, as we should, and by collaboration and inclusion, we have had success.

The special interest groups who are behind this bill have raised tens of millions of dollars over the years with the promise to their donors that the money would be spent to protect important tracts of beautiful red rock in Utah.

This proposal turns that principle on its head.

It is wrong that this legislation turns a completely deaf ear to these most significant stakeholders.