John Hansen

the U.S. Constitution says that if the Government takes private property, the owner of the property shall receive just compensation. In Washington County, Utah, the desert tortoise was put on the endangered species list. Therefore, the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2833 sponsored by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Pastor) authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. This bill would serve to protect and conserve the historic elements…

Mr. Speaker, S. 1629, sponsored by Senators Smith and Wyden of Oregon, and the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden) on the House side, would facilitate two exchanges of public and private lands in Oregon: the Triangle Land Exchange in the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3676 establishes the Santa Rosa and the San Jacinto Mountain National Monument. This bill was introduced by the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Bono), and the work she showed in moving this legislation forward is really…

Mr. Speaker, the Guam Omnibus Opportunities Act, H.R. 2462, introduced by the gentleman from Guam (Mr. Underwood) has been developed on a bipartisan basis and contains four provisions affecting our territory in the Western Pacific. The…

I rise in support of H.R. 4063, as amended, introduced by the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), the ranking minority member from the Committee on Resources. The gentleman from California deserves a lot of credit for crafting…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4579 introduced by myself, would facilitate a major land exchange between the Secretary of the Interior and the State of Utah. Within the West Desert of Utah lies hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness study areas…

Mr. Speaker, S. 1892, sponsored by Senator Domenici, authorizes the acquisition of the Valles Caldera or better known as the Baca Ranch. The Baca Ranch is approximately 95,000 acres of land located within the Santa Fe National Forest of…

when the President started this tirade, this was the first one he put in was the Grand Staircase Escalante. It has been there 4 years. Money has been appropriated for it. I would be happy, as I told the gentleman from Washington (Mr…

the great conservationist Teddy Roosevelt could see, as he went through the West, and he was very familiar with the West, that there were some things that needed protection. So he asked Congress to pass a law, and that was called the…

the gentleman and everybody on that side voted for two pieces of legislation to not repeal it but to take care of it. And what the gentleman has said and the other gentleman has said about law enforcement and other areas is just not true…

let me say in response to what the gentleman from New Jersey was talking about, here is the emergency order here. It says, if I may read that: ``Under the emergency order, all public lands, including vehicle ways are closed to OHVs in the…

if I may reclaim my time and say to my friend, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Udall), I would offer the gentleman and any of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, come on out, let us look at it, let us have input in this area, if…

I apologize if I misinterpreted the gentleman's earlier comments when he talked about where we were following county lines. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert) went right through a county line with the agreement of people and went…

let me just say, the Secretary is given the right to monitor these things. That is what we are doing here. I think he can probably do a better job than I can sitting back here in Washington, D.C., or anybody else. He has got people on the…

I feel kind of funny in this position, Mr. Chairman. The folks on the other side of the aisle are saying that to me. But I am just saying, okay, they have in good faith gone out there, they have spent hundreds of hours on it. They have…

I heard an interesting talk by one of the Senators from the State of Utah wherein he talked about his service in the White House under the Nixon years. What I found interesting about it was that he talked about the days of Watergate, and…

What happened yesterday at the White House? Somebody jumped over the fence and they apprehended the person because he was trespassing and they took him to jail. Guess what we are talking about here tonight? Only trespassing. These people…

we have a very critical problem in America today. It is called, training our military on the East Coast. The only place we can really put this thing together happens to be a little island outside of Puerto Rico called Vieques. There is the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1680 introduced by my colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), provides for a land exchange between the Stanislaus Forest and Kern County, California. It will transfer approximately 70 acres of national…

I would hope that more Americans would realize this concept of multiple use. It has worked very well for us for a long time and out in the West. What does one do in multiple use when one only has one use like so many of our eastern States…

I rise in support of H.R. 1695, introduced by my colleague, the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Gibbons). An enormous amount of effort has gone into the preparation of this bill, and I would like to commend the gentleman from Nevada for working…

I am happy to note that we recently reached a compromise with the minority to add these en bloc amendments to the bill. The amendments would make fairly technical changes to the environmental review requirements and the revisionary clause…

a tragedy has recently occurred in the defense of our Nation and the protection of the men and women who serve in its defense. Specifically, we sent our USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked…

I rise in support of H.R. 348, introduced by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Bartlett). The gentleman from Maryland worked hard on this bill which would help recognize those people who have served in this country's civil defense…