Rob Bishop: “I reject what you said about the oil concept. What we are giving to the state is simply the permitting process.”

Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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

I am hopeful that more substantial progress to strengthen the power grid is forthcoming in the near future.

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