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All the talk about we need to address root causes, it is like come on, guys. This is taking our eye off the ball, which is we need to have our borders secure.

We are going to have to secure our border.

The idea that we are going to somehow solve the root causes in all of Latin America of corruption, of the kind of military threats going on, that is just not going to happen.

There simply isn't. I will have my staff reach out to yours, but will you commit to emphasizing with your agency that expediency is key with this project, especially as it relates to community water?

We have seen for several decades a growing reluctance from land managers to permit authorized uses of federal land, often due to just minimal negative public feedback.

I think we as lawmakers and policy makers need to understand it is not as easy as waving a wand and protecting all of this area because we have designated it.

It's a great bill. It actually passed on a bipartisan basis in the 115th Congress, and I'd to commend this bill to my colleagues as one possible solution to help us move through this.

When we talk about these delays, 90 percent of this property, you--it takes years and years and years to permit.

My district is not only rural, half of it is classified as frontier. Now layer over top of that that the vast majority of it, 90 percent of the land, is owned by the Federal Government.

Almost 20 years after the passage of the Energy Policy Act in 2005, we still do not have enough petroleum engineers, geologists, and staff within the Bureau of Indian Affairs to support development of Indian energy resources.

We are taking that responsibility away from the state, and we are going to take that, and I think when we make these decisions, we have to step up for that.

We feel like we preserve and protect that area in a magnificent way, and now the Federal Government has taken it over without adding any resources.

But it is not staff, it is budget.

How in the world does the Federal Government propose to do what it said it was going to do when it made this a monument designation and took the stewardship away from the local people?

Today, there is far more looting, far more grave robbing, vandalism in this area.

We must do this to protect and preserve this area. We don't trust the state, we don't trust the county, we don't trust the elected officials to do this as they have done it for many, many decades.

The idea that we are going to somehow solve the root causes in all of Latin America of corruption, of the kind of military threats going on, that is just not going to happen.

We cannot solve poverty here. We cannot end crime here, in our own country. The idea that we are going to do it in dozens of countries across Latin America and reduce the desire of people to come to America is just not realistic.