Today the Subcommittee on Federal Lands has come to St. George to hold an oversight hearing on the Bureau of Land Management's draft Resource Management Plan pursuant to the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.

St. George will be used as a cautionary tale that Ronald Reagan was right.

If you get in bed with the Federal Government, you had better be prepared for something more than a good night's sleep.

The Secretary of the Interior shall identify a route. It does not say 'study' or 'consider,' and it does not say 'may.' It says 'shall identify a route.'

The only actual bona fide representatives of the community are the representatives the community has elected.

If a community, say, in my district were invited to participate in this process, to make concessions, with the expectation that they would be ratified into law and carried out, would you advise the people of my community to participate in…

Again, you have said that you do not have the authority to prosecute for negligence; yet your EPA vigorously prosecutes private citizens for negligence.

The fact is this report failed to hold anyone accountable for the disaster.

If you are a private citizen and you have an accident with a backhoe, you go to jail for spilling 1,500 gallons.

Here is the double standard. If you are a private citizen and you have an accident with a backhoe, you go to jail for spilling 1,500 gallons.

We also greatly appreciate Ranking Member Grijalva's leadership in previously introducing the National Park Service Centennial Act.