no President, regardless of what party he or she belongs to, should have the power to unilaterally declare how lands in our States are managed.

Rural Arizona communities, like the ones in my Congressional District, depend on the multiple-use of public lands for their livelihoods.

I believe it is critical this Congress reforms the National Monument designation process.

The people should be a part of land designation decisions.

We need regulatory relief so we can actually go out and produce new wealth off the land.

If we were to mitigate, and one of the smaller fires up by the Schultz Pass Fire in Flagstaff, if we would have mitigated that, the cost would have been a minimum of one-tenth, at least one-tenth less than what we saw in mitigation charges…

In these times of economic uncertainty, with ranchers facing drought throughout different pockets in the West, with ranchers taking voluntary reductions, with ranchers taking forest reductions implemented by the agency because of ESA…

this is an arbitrary tax that I oppose.

I think from the standpoint of holding our own, we have to have an equal balance across the board.

the proposed legislation will expedite projects (timber thinning and livestock grazing), encouraging free-enterprise solutions on federal lands

If we were to get this project off, what would this mean financially, potentially, to Gila County?