This rule seeks to circumvent State authority to define, analyze, and manage wildlife within our borders.

These women and men are the most skilled mariners in the world, and they know best the challenges of handling large commercial ships.

I am committed to being an active partner in conservation management and have a vested interest in the health and future of the recreational fishing industry and the marine resources.

Safety is of paramount importance to my operation.

According to NOAA's own data, there has never been a right whale strike by a pilot boat.

Without well managed and productive oceans, I don't have a job.

NOAA's proposal would also threaten safe navigation of large vessels in narrow offshore channels.

I view this issue as one where we don't have to pick a side, boats versus whales.

The issue is not should these whales be protected, but rather are NOAA's proposed changes rooted in science and in practical application.

Are there better alternatives than essentially shutting down ocean commercial activity along the entire East Coast to commerce to protect the species? I sure hope so.

If NOAA's proposed changes are adopted, it will endanger pilots and pilot boat crews.

Pilot boats must approach large moving ships at speeds sufficient to provide a stable platform for the transfer.

Without an adequate safety deviation clause, men and women will be unnecessarily put in dangerous situations that can threaten the navigational safety of the Federal navigational channels.

I would make the argument that, if this is good enough for Harry Reid, it should be good enough for us.

I would argue the Biden administration to work with Congress to once again look at this model, rather than to use their time in attempting to unlawfully circumvent Congress to rewrite FLPMA.

The State of Arizona and Mohave County simply cannot afford to lose any more land to the federal government.

The Antiquities Act is a crucial land management tool to help ensure that we are able to protect these lands.

The public lands rule that we are discussing here today will help to bring us closer to the goal of a climate-resilient, ecologically intact, and culturally preserved landscape.

With overwhelmingly bipartisan support at that time from across the entire political spectrum, the U.S. Congress had finally spoken and clearly defined the disposition of public lands in northern Arizona.

Since his first day in office, President Biden has abused the authority of the Antiquities Act to add large swaths of acreage to the Federal estate, reducing public access in the process.

The only thing placing 'keep out signs' on the land does is that it forever hamstrings our citizens from making a living or enjoying the land.

New Mexico has boldly initiated a pilot conservation leasing program of its own under her leadership.

This is kind of amazing. This is breathtakingly arrogant on the part of the agency.

I think that you may consider this a modernization of the language in the bill, but it is an expansion that is outside the parameter of the definitions of what the mission of the agency is under the bill.

This is breathtakingly arrogant on the part of the agency.