This creates enormous problems and economic distress on the communities that are impacted by Federal land ownership, and the bill before us is a result of many years of work, collaboration, and compromise by Chairman Bishop and Congressman Chaffetz.
Federal land ownership negatively affects local communities; the bill is a collaborative solution.
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The current system protects biodiversity over 100 percent of the Economic Zone of the United States through the councils.
This ban is even more ridiculous after we just locked in mandatory spending of $900 million in perpetuity with the so-called Great American Outdoors Act.
Both states and the Federal Government should play key roles in managing fisheries.
The Majority is pushing a so-called 30x30 idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans by 2030, all under the guise of protecting biodiversity while tackling climate change.
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