Mike Lee actually said...

"Just like the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, the proposed Bears Ears Monument would deprive these vulnerable communities... of vital economic, recreational and cultural resources."

"This threat is exactly why I have introduced S. 3317 which would prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in the State of Utah, except by express authorization of Congress..."

"My bill would simply put Utah on an equal footing with Wyoming and give the people of Utah, who have been severely harmed by the abuse, the flagrant abuse, of the Antiquities Act, some piece of mind a..."

"Twenty years later the verdict is out. The people of Utah were right. The Grand Staircase has been devastating for the people of Utah's Garfield and Kane Counties."