Mike Lee actually said...

I am proud to have the chance to introduce someone who has been at the center of that, Kathleen Clarke.

This is an issue that is very important to me and to my state. BLM manages nearly 23,000,000 acres of public lands in Utah.

The proposed rule threatens to circumvent BLM's own field managers and state directors at later stages of the planning process.

Those hurdles are magnified. They are compounded to a very significant degree in a public land state like mine.