Rob Bishop: “Since OMB is usually the one that stops most of the testimony from getting to us on time, perhaps they did not have…”

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.

I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being forced to actually deal with the local community on…

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.