Rob Bishop: “The idea that the court should be a driver of policy that deals with our public lands is really a fairly recent paradigm…”

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.

Is the gentleman sure he really wants the Federal Government having a forest in his place?

There really is no reason to add to this hearing--unless it is to give Members another 5 minutes to campaign, or speak on the bills. It is kind of a waste of time.

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