Rob Bishop: “We respectfully request Congress's assistance in reversing this new Forest Service policy.”

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…

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.

This ban is even more ridiculous after we just locked in mandatory spending of $900 million in perpetuity with the so-called Great American Outdoors Act.

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