I think it is important to realize there is nothing, absolutely nothing in the base bill that prohibits any individual or group from filing a lawsuit. What it does do is discourage frivolous lawsuits. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Zinke) to expand on that.
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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.
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?
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.
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