The Antiquities Act provides the President the authority to designate national monuments on Federal land containing 'historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest.'

In the last 8 years, the Obama administration used this Act to declare national monument status over 553.4 million acres of land and water.

Which, I might add, is why Congress, and not the President, is given the authority under the Constitution to manage the Federal lands.

the previous administration designated thousands of acres of monument land in Siskiyou County, over the direct protest of the residents and local governments.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here today. I think you brought this issue into very sharp focus for us.

But if the forest is desperately overcrowded, trees do not have enough room to grow and thrive.

These restrictions have not only killed our forests, they have destroyed the economies of our local communities that used to thrive on the harvest of surplus timber.

I hope today the Budget Committee will continue to look to RSC's budget proposals for policy ideas as you begin drafting the fiscal year 2018 budget.

In other words, when the Federal Government borrows a dollar, it borrows it from that same capital market that would otherwise be available to loan to consumers to make consumer purchasers, to businesses to expand jobs.

Admiral Mike Mullen warned us was in his professional military judgment, the greatest single threat to our national security, and that was our Nation's debt.

So, we are already approaching uncharted territory for this Nation, and the question I have is that on our current trajectory, are we courting a sovereign debt crisis?