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

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.

If this refuge satisfies a strategic interest then I think we should do it and make the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission do it correctly.

I am confused because not more than a few minutes ago you testified on behalf of the Secretary that you would deny placing a commemorative on the World War II memorial because there is existing law that prohibits that.

Our unemployment rate is currently 11 percent. My brothers in the Navajo Nation are at a staggering 52 percent.

I am not aware that Secretary Salazar has ever set foot on our land, so it must have come as a vision.

I believe the President's prayer gave solace, comfort and strength to our Nation.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Grijalva, for holding this hearing today and for considering this legislation...

This mining will not take place in the park or anywhere close to the Grand Canyon.

I have cosponsored a companion bill in the Senate, S. 1690, with Senator John McCain of Arizona.

Careful environmental studies... make it clear that uranium mining in this area pose no real threat to the environment.

We respect and take a responsibility for protecting the Grand Canyon National Park.

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 lands to responsible, authorized multiple…

The mining that is going to be brought into Mohave County and southern Utah means over 1,000 jobs and $29 billion to our economy.

Let me be clear, all funds must be raised by the Gold Star Mothers National Monument Foundation; this will not cost the taxpayer a single dime.

Mohave County, while it benefits somewhat from this activity, would starve if it were dependent upon the tourism as a primary source of income.

The locking up of a million acres of mining in northern Arizona ignores the economic realities of the state and will do fiscal harm to the local area.

It's time for the President to get a grip on reality. He obviously doesn't understand the unemployment crisis that's crippling America. The President says that he hasn't seen the House Republican jobs plan. Well, here it is. It's been out…

Despite this funding, NOAA still is not able to answer the questions regarding whether the commercial fishing industry is limiting the food available for Steller sea lions.

When an agency puts in place a restriction on an industry that will result in a loss of up to $61 million per year and cost 750 jobs, I expect them to be certain.

The conclusions in the BiOp regarding the finding of jeopardy and its posited cause (nutritional stress from food competition with fisheries) do not follow logically from scientific, economic, and social information presented in the BiOp…

Last week we witnessed shocking, shocking hypocrisy from President Obama. His Justice Department filed a lawsuit, a frivolous lawsuit, to block the State of Alabama from enforcing a law that would keep illegal immigrants from taking…

What is happening in our own hemisphere is certainly just as important, if not more so.

But you are not certain.

Eighteen veterans, how long does that take? I can make 18 phone calls in 30 minutes.