Alan Lowenthal actually said...

"I want to make sure I understand the bill as you are presenting it to us, so I am asking you, can you confirm that the bill does not repeal any of the approximately 900,000 acres of wilderness study a..."

"Also, there are going to be approximately 677,000 acres of Federal public lands, and your bill would potentially open up those 677,000 acres of Federal public lands that are no longer within the Grand..."

"I want to make clear that right after he issued the proclamation Executive Order, we are aware that in the 105th and 106th Congress, that Congress ratified these new boundaries."

"So we need some mechanism to reach these foreign ministers of the countries that have already signed their signatures."