Bill Johnson actually said...

"What this impending withdrawal will do is rip apart one of our economic opportunities to the detriment of the people I represent."

"I do, however, hope that I can work with the Secretary to continue this work because I think it is so very, very important and meaningful to the people who served."

"Rather than respect a longstanding and carefully crafted compromise agreed to by all parties, the current Administration would rather march forward with their goal of locking up even more federal land..."

"We were told at one of our meetings of the Arizona-Utah Coalition by Scott Florence--he is the Arizona Strip district manager--that the regular resource planning process basically wasn't followed."