John Shadegg: “It would keep the power in the hands of the President to create a monument of over 50,000 acres?”

Wait, the gentleman's telling me that never before in Federal law have we ordered people to buy a particular product, that we don't do that in Federal law as a routine matter?

No, we don't force people to do that. I guess we do say that if you want to drive in some places, you have to buy auto insurance to insure against damage to somebody else. Right?

So the reason you wouldn't want to stand on the floor and vote for that Senate bill is not just because of the policy in it, it is because that bill will contain the Cornhusker Kickback, right?

So this would be the first Federal mandate saying you must buy a product because the Federal Government tells you you must buy a product?