These skyrocketing gas prices, and a risky dependence on fuel supplied by volatile foreign nations such as Libya, highlight our need for an American energy policy that emphasizes production and decreases our reliance upon foreign oil.

I think political correctness is also an enemy of us focusing upon those who want to destroy this country.

I think it is absolutely critical that we as a Nation focus upon doing exactly what I was taught in the United States Marine Corps, to know your enemy.

What is the authority for the Federal Government to designate lands as wild lands, and is this an effort by this Administration to circumvent Congress' sole authority to designate lands as wilderness?

I believe that we need to start selling trees. We need to start selling properties and not acquiring more.

Then you are not going to recognize the private property rights of those lessors.

Sir, both cannot be true. Which is factual? You made two statements that are totally contradictory.

Well, the Secretary said that people have a property right, and that the government should uphold those leases.

Do you agree that it is important for the government to stand behind its contracts with private individuals and companies?

So then you have testified incorrectly. You do not uphold those property rights that the Secretary said should be held inviolate?

As the Director of BLM, do you and your agency intend to protect the private property rights of those who hold Federal oil and gas leases that have been signed and issued?