Rob Bishop: “Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of National Public Land Day. Whoopee. I am also reading a book about the members of my…”

“Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of National Public Land Day. Whoopee. I am also reading a book about the members of my church trying to live in post-World War II East Germany where all building was restricted. If they wished to have a house in which to worship and it was on government land, the government always owned the building and could possess it at any time. If they actually wished to possess the building, they had to find private land to trade to the government because the official policy of East Germany was ``no net loss of federal land.'' I mention that because communist East Germany has the same policy standard as the Department of the Interior and Forest Service have today. Mr. Speaker, either we are wrong or East Germany was right, and I sincerely doubt the latter is accurate. ____________________”