Rob Bishop: “Any normal American would look at that and say something is desperately wrong with what we are doing.”

This hearing, as far as understanding truth of what went on, and coming up with a good history, is going to be invalid.

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…

Instead, we decided to move ahead with what can only be described as really good political theater.

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.