11/16/2021
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"President Obama recently described those efforts as purely symbolic, and I think he also used the word 'failure'..."
"The U.S. Department of the Interior has never possessed the power to designate wilderness. That power has always been reserved and is always exercised exclusively by Congress."
"As you know two-thirds of my State, the State of Utah is owned by the Federal Government."
"As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I take seriously our responsibility of shaping U.S. foreign policy."