Angie Craig: “I am so saddened that my friend and colleague from Arkansas likes to engage in the typical class warfare game that his…”

“I am so saddened that my friend and colleague from Arkansas likes to engage in the typical class warfare game that his side of the aisle oftentimes likes to play over issues where they project that there is some big evil creature out there profiteering off of what is the public's interest or the public's resource and, therefore, we ought to stop them. If that were true, I would be standing not only beside my colleague from Arkansas, but I would be supporting his legislation. That has never been the case. What is the case is that the environmental community of our country, for well over two decades now, have tried to find a reason to change the character of the western public grazing lands for a variety of reasons. And through that, they have searched for a variety of arguments that somehow would ring solid with our citizens, that would say that public policy that directs our public lands somehow is misdirected, that the Congress has failed in its responsibility to the American people and, therefore, we ought to change public grazing land policy.”