Rob Bishop: “What is for you guys a hypothetical unfortunately is for us a reality.”

Since the minority leader is supportive, or I wouldn't be here, and I am the ranking member and I am supportive of it, and the Navajo Nation has been told. The chairman of the committee is in support of it, does that not constitute the…

Is there any time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 15 minutes remaining.

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…

Just as locking up large sums of lands has been a terrible and expensive idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans does not translate to good stewardship.