Mike Lee actually said...

"Please, I implore you, I beg of you, let us continue to work toward consensus. Tell the President not to declare a national monument in San Juan County, Utah."

"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."

"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."