Finally, this initiative will create a whole new avenue for litigation.

This is likely to place huge portions of the ocean off limits to certain economic and recreational activities.

This creates uncertainty for businesses and job creators.

This could cost jobs and have devastating long-term economic impacts throughout the country.

I, frankly, fail to see how any of these statutes gives the President authority to create regional planning zones.

It is unclear how much this initiative will cost the taxpayers.

You're talking about robots. What I am talking about is trust. Trust is a series of promises kept. And what we see is right here in this picture. We have over 500 jobs that have been established here. We have seen the investment of this…

We've spent an exorbitant amount of time trying to discuss this with our Native Americans. We actually have law that we've gone through the area in exchange that shows no actual artifacts at all. So the thing about it is that we want to…

But I'm pointing back to the same purpose that I've actually seen trust exhibited here where they've actually hired people. I've seen the native people being hired. I've seen the local people being hired here, and that's a part of trust…

In Secretary Salazar's October 19 letter to me, the Secretary states that even with a full withdrawal, development of up to 11 mines in the area over the next 20 years is reasonably foreseeable.

From the very beginning of our nation's history, we have recognized that states and localities are unable under the principles of federalism to tax federal land.