Paul Gosar: “Woman, I want to explain. This is a cross- section of geological formations. These yellow areas are called the breccia…”

“Woman, I want to explain. This is a cross- section of geological formations. These yellow areas are called the breccia pipes. What ends up happening is these alluvial fans actually direct water. Uranium is water soluble. This is the Grand Canyon down here. This is where the springs come through. So what ends up happening is it dissolves into water, and it comes into the water. So it seems like to me, what we would want to do is get rid of that so there was not a perpetual leaching into the subsurface water. Geology tells us a lot. Madam Chairwoman, I yield 4\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock). Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chairwoman, when I chaired the Federal Lands Subcommittee a few years ago, the ranking Democratic member was from Massachusetts. She shared the Democrats' goal of having the Federal Government acquire as much land in the west as it possibly could. Try as I might, I could never impress upon her the difference between a State like Massachusetts, where the Federal Government owns only 1.2 percent of the land, and a State like mine, California, where it controls 46 percent. I have got one county in my district where the Federal Government owns 93 percent of the land.…”