Bruce Westerman

H.R. 1208... would amend the Indian Reorganization Act to clarify that the Secretary of the Interior has discretionary authority to place land into trust for any federally recognized tribe.

We are here to look at two different bills, really two different approaches that would amend the Indian Reorganization Act.

This process of leasing national park land for a migrant camp circumvented the rules for political purposes.

The lease must end, and it will in January.

If you start with bad data, you are going to get bad results, no matter how well you do in between.

Eradicating the cartels and their fentanyl from Indian Country should be a major priority for the FBI.

This is a topic that is not getting nearly enough attention.

We made some really bad decisions three or four decades ago that are really costing us on the backside right now.

If we don't have roads, we end up spending a lot of money with tankers dropping fire retardants.

The policy hasn't worked to save the spotted owl, and we can, in hindsight, decades and decades later, look back and say this was a weaponized rule just to stop management on the forests.

So, I would hope that we would take another look at roads and access on the forests, and use some common sense there.

So, there is no scenario or plan in place to cancel any of the three oil and gas lease sales.

Have you done any planning to delay the three sales?

Do you anticipate any hiccups in the process, or delays?

Thank you, Chairman Stauber. Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law (P.L. 117-58) on November 15, 2021.

The message that the public is getting is that Fish and Wildlife doesn't want to manage fish and wildlife refuges for fish and wildlife anymore.

I would do everything in your power to pull these rules back before they become final.

I really believe that decision was made way above the level of the Interior Department.

An ounce of prevention is worth many, many pounds of cure when it comes to our forests.

We have a bipartisan bill called the Save Our Sequoias Act.

A Representative in Congress from the State of Arkansas.

Thank you, Chairman Tiffany.

I also appreciate Mr. Hern's leadership on the RSC and the establishment of the HEAT team and the efforts that they have been putting into making sure we are energy independent here in America. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I thank the gentleman for his leadership on the HEAT team. I will also point out to the American people that the Biden administration is the gift that keeps on giving to Putin. Not only would they not put sanctions on the Nord Stream 2…