Rob Bishop: “Many of them believe that it is their duty to 'protect' the land from any future development.”

All of those legitimate questions are not going to be addressed in this Committee hearing today.

Is the gentleman sure he really wants the Federal Government having a forest in his place?

Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

As now we come to some of the realities of this particular bill and the procedures. Mr. Speaker, it would be nice if we actually dealt with the good of the body and recognize that reauthorizations are important so that we can reevaluate…