This proposal is wallpaper to cover a federal management grab.

This is why we are advancing H.R. 3397, which would require the BLM Director to withdraw this devastating rule.

I am deeply concerned that this will have devastating effects on the outdoor recreation economy.

If the BLM has not managed under FLMPA 'to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands' without this rule since 1976, what has the agency been doing for the last 47 years?

These efforts are un-American and unconstitutional.

No amount of clever naming schemes will disguise the fact that their policies are quite simply atrocious.

The authority to regulate the environment is not a blank check to make up rules that take away liberty.

The BLM itself has only held three in-person listening sessions on the rule in densely populated cities.

I am thankful that we have hearings and we have people like that out there to bring in.

This area is sitting on the largest deposit in the world for nickel and copper, the largest deposit.

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 do best is being destroyed.

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.