Norman D. Dicks: “the Bureau of Land Management, just in case some people would like to know, for the multiple use management protection…”

“the Bureau of Land Management, just in case some people would like to know, for the multiple use management protection and development of a full range of natural resources, including minerals, timber, rangeland, fish, wildlife habitat and wilderness of about 262 million acres of the Nation's public lands, and for management of 700 million additional acres of federally owned subsurface mineral rights, the bureau is the second largest supplier of public outdoor recreation in the Western United States. Under the multiple use and ecosystem management concept, the bureau administers the grazing of approximately 4.3 million head of livestock on some 161 million acres of public land ranges and manages over 48,000 wild horses and burros, some 262 million acres of wildlife habitat, and over 117,000 miles of fisheries habitat. Grazing receipts are significant as are other receipts. I would just like to ask the gentleman who sponsored the amendment, tell me one account in this bill that he would like to cut. Can the gentleman tell me one specific line item that he would cut with his meat cleaver instead of his meat ax? Can the gentleman tell me one line item in this bill that he would like to cut, and name it specifically?”