Well, we'll all join in the battalion because we are all faced with the results of these decisions. Let me just check off a couple of things that have happened in the West that have destroyed jobs in the West. Obviously, in my State, the first thing this administration did is cancel 77 oil and gas leases in the State of Utah, but what we don't know is they have also halted scheduled oil and gas lease sales in Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Wyoming, because of the climate of this administration, only is able to lease about 5 percent of the leases that are put on bid because of what we are doing here. This administration banned uranium mining permits in the State of Arizona. They put multiple restrictions on oil shale development causes. In California, they blocked water that goes to ranchers in the central valleys there. So, in some communities in California, up to 40 percent of those agricultural communities are now faced with unemployment. This administration tried to provide $400 million in stimulus to that area. Well, it's sad. They didn't need to do that. All they needed to do was to turn the water on, and it's free. Unfortunately, much of that stimulus money went to districts that voted to keep the water turned off, which created the unemployment in the first place. I spoke to the economic development director from the State of Utah, who is in charge of tourism and movies.…
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