If we do decide to reauthorize this Act, I would hope that a principal component of the reformed act would be the promotion of hatchery production of all the species regulated by the Act.

The problem is we don't include them in the population counts, and then to add insult to insanity, when they tear down the Iron Gate Dam, the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery goes with it, then you do have a catastrophic problem.

My constituents and I are tired of unelected Washington, DC bureaucrats creating new programs out of thin air that have the ability to end our way of life and the way that we make a living.

It reminds me of something that Abraham Lincoln said in his famous house divided speech.

This sweeping order...is asserting authority that Congress has hitherto reserved to itself through the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

But if it is simply a matter of putting pretty signs up saying that this is a National Blueways river, what is wrong with that?

if you get in bed with the Federal Government, you better expect something more than a good night's sleep.

And it doesn't bother you that the Federal Government is producing a designation that could well end up banning your activities?

It did so with no public testimony and despite widespread local opposition.

So it is voluntary, then, in the sense that it is imposed upon you without consultation.

How can a designation that requires no public notice, no comment opportunity and was created without coordination or consultation with affected landowners, local government or States result in increased coordination?

This sweeping order... is asserting authority that Congress has hitherto reserved to itself.