Bob Bennett

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. My connection with the GPO goes back to the time when I chaired the Leg. Branch Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee.

I am a First Amendment hawk.

Eighty-five percent of the land within the boundaries of the town is public land now, restricting any kind of tax base that is there.

There is a sense of urgency with respect to resolving this issue. It is a Utah issue and it requires, I believe, a Utah-based solution.

S. 1690 fails to ensure any accountability or transparency in the use of trust fund monies.

S. 1690 is a recipe for disaster.

The Utah Navajos, to be very blunt about it, put very little stock in those assurances.

The Navajo Nation was not consulted about S. 1690 prior to its introduction.

As I said at the beginning, this is a Utah problem that I think can be solved within Utah.

With all due respect, Sen. Bennett is listening only to a small fraction of Navajos and relying on misinformation.

I believe the Congress should do the right thing by fully enabling self determination for them.

I think you cannot tackle this problem in the medium term without doing something about getting entitlements under control, reducing the costs particularly of health care.

Every single thing we spend money on in the government other than mandatory spending, we have had to borrow every single dime.

So it's our concern for the smelt that is causing the unemployment, driving out of people from their homes and their jobs and so on. It isn't the drought.

I'm leaning on that 5 years experience to say let's not let another 5 years go by without any money coming into the Federal Government.

It's good for the conservancy district. It's good for the Federal Government. I would hope it would not be particularly controversial.

In November 1997, I requested that President Clinton appoint a Y2K czar.

The bridge to the promised land is built out of fossil fuels.

The clearest and easiest way to refund money to consumers is to not take it from them in the first place.

My frustration as I listen to this whole thing just spills over, because I think we have fallen in love, Dr. Metcalf, with the idea of cap and trade is the way to solve this.

Seeing as how we're sitting on a $79 trillion unfunded liability for Medicaid--or Medicare, I can think of a way, of someplace to put the revenue.

This is an incredible mess. We're talking about taking money from people in an effort to cure the planet.

The taxpayers will be made whole after 100 years of waiting.

I think he will do a superb job at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

We have to have something that works.