Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The natural resources bills that we are dealing with here today, as I pointed out, are a great gift to big mining corporations and overturn decades of work by local organizations and by the public in these areas who want to see their lands protected. What is interesting is Republicans are putting forward these bills, even though the American public and their own constituents are not interested in seeing what they are doing. While Republicans are helping out the big mining corporation fans, their constituents want the opposite. I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record the article titled: ``Analysis: Public Comments Overwhelmingly Support BLM Public Lands Rule.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from New Mexico? There was no objection. Analysis: Public Comments Overwhelmingly Support BLM Public Lands Rule Denver.--A new statistical analysis of more than 150,000 public comments finds nearly universal support for the Bureau of Land Management's proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, colloquially known as the Public Lands Rule. The Center for Western Priorities performed a sentiment analysis on a random sample of 10,000 public comments submitted to regulations.gov as of the morning of July 5, 2023, in the closing hours of a 90-day public comment period.…”