Alan Lowenthal actually said...

But for others, such as myself and the majority of Americans, it is a fragile ecosystem with exceptional wilderness values.

I am proud to be 1 of the 115 co-sponsors of that legislation.

For the oil and gas industry, it is a promising cash cow, with billions of dollars of oil awaiting to be sold.

But destroying a wilderness to get a $1 billion offset to a $1.5 trillion tax bill is clearly not about fiscal responsibility.