Rob Bishop: “Just as locking up large sums of lands has been a terrible and expensive idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans does…”

I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.

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.

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

Does that clearance have to be in the form of a written statement to the Chair? The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair previously advised, that request cannot be entertained absent the appropriate clearance, which has not been received by…