02/07/2019
https://congress.gov...
"This bill seeks to right this wrong and to go about monument designation the constitutional way: through open hearings, debate, and congressional action."
"In 1996, President Bill Clinton, in a breathtaking abuse of this law, unilaterally declared 1.7 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in southern Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante..."
"I wish my colleagues from other states where the Federal Government holds maybe 1 percent of the land area would consider what would happen to their communities if the Federal Government suddenly took..."
"But we are also opening up vast acreage that has been set off limits for the enjoyment of the American people, and for the prosperity of the regional economy."