Mike Collins

You have an administration with an ideology that is way left wing and out of control.

Now I think we are all in the most regulated industry that there is in the country.

You are another glaring example of an unauthorized, unaccountable agency that is out there, that is politically motivated.

As I said, I am in the trucking business. I am just a small businessman.

I saw an EPA that was out of control in the Midwest, in Minnesota, destroying a small town up there.

These unauthorized agencies, we need to either authorize them, or defund them and get rid of them.

it is freaking over-reach from a Federal Government, with an administration that is pushing a left-wing, socialistic agenda down our throats.

You have outsourced government responsibilities to an outside foreign entity.

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

This proposal is wallpaper to cover a federal management grab.

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

Let me also state clearly; wildlife management is the responsibility and within the authority and purview of the states--not the federal government.

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

These efforts are un-American and unconstitutional.

Hosting public information sessions in hand-picked locations with no opportunity to comment is not a responsible way to seek input and will be counter-productive.

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?

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

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

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

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.

NOAA needs to take an extra hard look at what they're about to do to this industry.

They cannot make it on tourism alone, that tourism and mining go hand in hand.

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

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 do not understand why there is such a push to keep 18-year-olds from driving a truck.