Rob Bishop: “the Federal Government cannot handle the job. The EPA doesn't even have the mining engineering expertise to do so.”

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…

May I inquire how much time I actually have left here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

state management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system

Let's get a couple of things very clear. First of all, this is not about the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We reauthorized permanently the Land and Water Conservation Fund in the last Congress, and in doing that, in a House Republican…