Thomas McClintock actually said...

"With all due respect, I have hundreds of sawmill families that are out of work today because of your policies. I would call that a distress."

"According to the McKenzie report, 2 billion barrels of oil is off limits to exploration and production in the Rocky Mountain region alone."

"That is an extraordinarily circular form of logic, Chief Tidwell. You are closing off vast amounts of our forests, our public lands to public access."

"Well, getting to Mr. Young's implied point then, you are no longer the Bureau of Land Management, you are the Bureau of Land Closures. Why shouldn't we rename your agency to reflect your actual work?"