If you go more specifically to my district, I don't have the specific numbers for BLM, but Federal lands represent about 90 percent, a high percentage of my district.

If you do not, it did not seem like the penalties were substantial.

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

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

In the West we know far better how to manage these lands, and have done better for decades and decades, than any bureaucrat in the East Coast could ever imagine or ever dream of managing these lands.

I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

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

Are you willing to extend the comment period, given the fact that so many people have not been heard from?

The best environmentalists in the world--by the way, they hate to be called environmentalists, our farmers and ranchers are the best environmentalists in the world--have been taking care of and preserving and protecting these lands.

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?

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

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 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.

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.

Nothing good has come out of that designation for the land in Utah, for the local tribes, and for the people who participate in this land.

This proposed rule was rushed forward without material input from Wyoming or other states.

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.

If you do not, it did not seem like the penalties were substantial.