Rob Bishop: “If the President uses the Antiquities Act, he by law cannot engage in that process.”

Let's get a couple of things very clear. First of all, this is not about the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We reauthorized permanently the Land and Water Conservation Fund in the last Congress, and in doing that, in a House Republican…

Yesterday, I called Lisa Pittman, who is the counsel for our committee, to make sure we had somebody covering us for floor time. She chastised me then, saying that under my condition, I need to ask about calling a doctor first, not calling…

I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.

Did you tell me the form the clearance has to have? In what form must it be? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has advised only that appropriate clearance must be provided. It has not been so provided, and so the Chair cannot entertain…