Paul Gosar actually said...

Taxpayers deserve better; landowners deserve better; fishermen deserve better; and dock workers, among many, deserve better.

Today's hearing brings together those concerned about the sweeping powers allowed under the Antiquities Act of 1906. Well over a century old...

What is really most troubling here is that these areas already have a great deal of protections under the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

Just because the Antiquities Act has been used by Republican presidents, does not justify such closures.