Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, I include in the Record a letter and a resolution from the Mesa County Board of County Commissioners and a letter from the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners in opposition to the legislation that we have on the floor today. Mesa County, Colorado, Board of County Commissioners, Grand Junction, CO, June 24, 2019. Re Colorado Wilderness Act of 2019, H.R. 2546. Hon. Diana DeGette, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Ms. DeGette: As the Board of County Commissioners (``Board'') for Mesa County, Colorado, we are submitting this letter to voice our opposition to the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2019, H.R. 2546. Mesa County has a well-established history of supporting sensible, multiple use of public lands and resources. The Board finds the proposed Wilderness designations of more 140,000 acres within Mesa County unacceptable and in direct conflict of the Mesa County Resolution adopted in opposition of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015, H.R. 3336 (enclosed). The areas proposed for Wilderness in Mesa County include: 1. South Shale Ridge & Little Book Cliffs Proposed Wilderness--29,045 acres (proposed ``Little Bookcliffs Wilderness'') 2. South Shale Ridge & Little Book Cliffs Proposed Wilderness--27,517 acres (proposed ``South Shale Ridge Wilderness'') 3. Bangs Canyon Proposed Wilderness--20,996 acres (proposed ``Bangs Canyon Wilderness'') 4.…”