"These efforts are un-American and unconstitutional."
"This proposal is wallpaper to cover a federal management grab."
"Let me also state clearly; wildlife management is the responsibility and within the authority and purview of the states--not the federal government."
"I am thankful that we have hearings and we have people like that out there to bring in."
"NOAA needs to take an extra hard look at what they're about to do to this industry."
"Every time they would get a permit or get some portion of the EPA review finished, they were either getting sued by environmentalists or the goalposts were being moved."
"I saw a small town up there that was being destroyed. I saw second, third, fourth-generation people up there that were very proud of what they do, but they were also extremely concerned that what they..."
"This area is sitting on the largest deposit in the world for nickel and copper, the largest deposit."
"They cannot make it on tourism alone, that tourism and mining go hand in hand."
"I do not understand why there is such a push to keep 18-year-olds from driving a truck."
"I think one of the uniting factors in Washington, DC that I have seen amongst moderate folks... it is war on the Federal bureaucracies."