Tom McClintock

This abuse of power means the public is largely forbidden from enjoying traditional recreational pursuits on the public lands.

I think one of the things that both Congress and also the people of the United States do not realize is that the Federal Government makes money off royalties of oil and gas.

The locally-elected officials do not support a national monument, but they do support, by and large, this Public Lands Initiative.

Great. Thank you for your testimony.

Uintah County commends Congressmen Bishop and Chaffetz and their staff for the thousands of hours of work and dedication to this effort.

They are, by definition, and you are, by definition, a representative of the people or you would not be holding that office.

Great. Well, I am sorry the mountain did not come to Grijalva, but Grijalva did go to the mountain.

Don't you think that that is irresponsible?

I wonder what moral authority is government to demand draconian sacrifices by our people when it treats the remaining water so frivolously.

I am not entirely clear why that would be such a bad deal for taxpayers.

So, for $330 million of cost we are relieving ourselves of $3.8 billion of costs?

Combining all of the powers in the same hands is the very definition of tyranny.

Well, California and Oregon are intent on tearing down four perfectly good hydroelectric dams on the Klamath that are producing 130 megawatts of the cleanest and cheapest power on the planet.

This is not voluntary, and that it is going to remove much hydroelectric power...

I think the structure on that oversight board, it seems to me that it violates, indeed it renounces the most basic architecture of American constitutional government.

It seems to me that the direction we should be taking is relieving Puerto Rico of the burdens of the Jones Act.

Puerto Rico is an island paradise. It is a cruise ship destination. It is ideally located for both North and South Atlantic shipping.

My concern is that every lender to every state in this country is no longer going to trust the terms of their own loans.

We just received testimony that endangered species are declining, despite all of these policies.

Do you understand how that sounds to the American people, or the people in my region who have stretched every drop of water in their homes?

You shut down pumps, cost us a half-million acre-feet of water because one Delta smelt was caught in the pumps, and you don't call that Draconian?

In the 1970s Congress passed laws such as NEPA and ESA that have been abused to drastically restrict our ability to manage our forests.

BLM's erroneous determination will negatively impact the ability of railroads to authorize the use of their respective rights-of-way.

I would say so, too. And I think that we need to look at the policies that are in place that are causing that deterioration.

I wonder what moral authority has the government to demand Draconian conservation measures from citizens when their own government thinks nothing of squandering water on a massive scale to adjust water temperatures for the fish.