On the recordDecember 9, 2015
For people whose homes and lives are being threatened by inaction or an improper action of the Federal Government, that is a critical issue to them. This bill is significantly important to people who are being harmed by the Federal Government. So this is what happened: In 2009, the Bureau of Land Management, they did a survey on 6,000 acres, out of a potential of about 90,000 acre piece of property. They used poor surveying methods, methods that were outlawed by the Supreme Court back in the 1920s because of the inaccuracy of the method they used. Four years later, this Bureau then decided, based on the inaccurate surveying done in an improper way, that they would lay claim to 90,000 acres. They later reduced that number somewhat, even though people lived on the land they were claiming. Their homes were there. Their future was there. They had a valid title to that land. They had been paying taxes on that land for years. Nonetheless, the government decided it was theirs. The government had no use for this land. They had no plan. They had no need for it. All it was was about control. Even the BLM workers who were on the field that understood, they didn't want this. It was made up here in the higher levels of people who want to control. And even though they own a third of the land mass of the United States, that simply was not enough. They wanted to go after the homes of these people as well.…
