Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3113, the Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act, or MAPLand Act, introduced by my Committee on Natural Resources colleague, Representative Blake Moore. Our committee has long focused on sportsmen's access to public lands. I am pleased that shortly after I became chair, we were able to pass the bipartisan John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, which included an entire title on sportsmen's access. The MAPLand Act would build on that law, as well as the investments made by the Great American Outdoors Act, to help ensure that hunters, anglers, and all Americans can more easily find information and resources to help facilitate public lands access. Representative Moore's bill would direct the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers to jointly develop and adopt standards to ensure database compatibility for the collection and sharing of outdoor recreation data related to Federal lands. Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Moore for championing this bill on behalf of everyone who enjoys our public lands, and I urge my colleagues to support the bill. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”