Rob Bishop: “Sometimes I think Yosemite would be better off in the State of California, because it was a State park before we took it…”

This is a good bill, and we obviously have no problems with this particular bill. When I started, I talked about kleinigkeiten on the small stuff. As good as this is, it is still small stuff and, actually, it is taken out--it is a portion…

The current system protects biodiversity over 100 percent of the Economic Zone of the United States through the councils.

If the gentleman has no other speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

Just as locking up large sums of lands has been a terrible and expensive idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans does not translate to good stewardship.