Jared Huffman: “I strongly oppose all three of these Congressional Review Act resolutions on the floor because the reality is that these…”

“I strongly oppose all three of these Congressional Review Act resolutions on the floor because the reality is that these would overhaul years of public input. They would silence Tribal voices and erase science-based planning, all so that this administration can hand millions of acres of our public lands over to the fossil fuel industry for extraction. Public lands should be our country's proudest legacy. They are our natural heritage, a national treasure, and the agencies responsible for stewarding them, like the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, diligently manage these resources for the future through the careful development of these resource management plans and forest plans. The BLM plans, or the RMPs, are carefully crafted to establish safeguards for wildlife, recreation areas, and watersheds, and to identify suitable areas for energy development, as well. That also includes grazing, logging, and other commercial activities. They have to balance all of it in these RMPs. It is also based on robust input from communities, stakeholders, the public, and government-to-government consultation with the impacted Tribes, as well. The Republican majority has proven time and again that they don't want any of that public process. They simply want to hand things over to Big Oil and Big Coal, and this week, they are right back at it.”