Richard Pombo: “Yes, sir. Reclaiming my time, it actually gives the State the first 50 miles that they do not have to do anything, and…”

The bills that we are doing by UC right now are bills that have been before the committee for a long time. The particular bill you are objecting to is a bill that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ortiz) has been working on for years. It is…

I believe that NEPA is an extremely valuable tool for the Federal Government and for our bureaucrats out there to make sure that anything that is going forward on public lands has the minimal impact on the environment, and that is what we…

It was about 99 years ago when Teddy Roosevelt used his State of the Union address to urge Congress to create a national forest system to ensure proper stewardship of these tremendous assets that we have in our huge public lands. And by…

I will continue to work with both of the gentlemen and the entire Florida delegation to resolve all of these problems so that we do what is in the best interest of Florida the other States and the country. I appreciate all the work that…