We must do better for our environment and communities.

For decades our nation has been engaged in a hands-off approach to managing our natural resources in the attempt to preserve wilderness.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Waters, for having this Member Day hearing.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds…

The hypocrisy with which the Biden administration approaches energy production on public lands must be addressed.

Reducing American oil and gas production only drives demand and profits to countries like Iran and Russia. This is insanity.

Forcing the taxpayer to pay for yet another subsidy for an industry that cannot support America's energy needs while the cost of energy skyrockets is irresponsible.

I wish sometimes they would just come out and be honest, and instead of saying we are doing this in the name of conservation, say we just don't like oil and gas, and we want to shut down oil and gas, if they would just be honest about that.

That is why I am sponsoring the Ensuring Border Access and Protection on Federal Lands Act.

The Biden administration should reverse its reckless policies in the interests of national and local security.

There are already over 400,000 convicted illegal alien criminals walking free in our communities.

This is common-sense legislation. It would require Federal land managers to construct navigable roads along Federal lands.

We failed on affordability. We are empowering terrorists, and we are failing on the environment.

I am pissed off about the fact that this translates to $60 billion in additional funds that Iran has profited from as a result of the ignorant energy policies of this Administration.

Time and again, we have seen President Biden and his folks embrace these rules for thee and not for me.

This Administration needs to own their mistakes and take the corrective actions to stop the flow of migrants.

Eight Democrat mayors or governors have declared a state of emergency because illegal immigrants have flooded their cities and states.

We need more border personnel. We need more court personnel to hear these asylum cases immediately. Remain in Mexico should be the policy of the United States, period.

But what we have under the Biden administration is exactly the opposite. It is bringing a New York Metropolitan experience to the national parks.

The endless flow of illegal immigrants over our southern border is not only is destroying individual cities and states it is destroying our country.

So, now to the topic at hand, the National Park Service in New York City wants to house thousands of migrants on park land.

The purpose of the Bureau of Land Management, for instance, is to maintain working land, but a few weeks ago, we found out that the Biden administration wants to lock up working land under conservation easements.

Building camps on Park Service land in the middle of New York City is not addressing the real problem.

I would love to see them reverse this 1.6 million-acre withdrawal of Federal land in Colorado from energy production.

The rationale is sage grouse are being hurt, and we have to protect the sage grouse, and that is just a fig leaf.