Rob Bishop: “Last year I asked the Interior Department for copies of communications between the National Alaska Conservation System…”

State management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system

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

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.