04/15/2013
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"Will one more national monument help that county prosper? Absolutely not."
"The Grand Staircase-Escalante designation--when that happened, there were 81 grazing jobs that were lost, as well as the shutdown of a plant where 1,100 jobs were lost."
"Let's go to San Juan County, then. It has one national monument, one national forest, one national recreation center, three national monuments. Despite that, it is still the poorest county in the stat..."
"And to Ms. Tsongas, your statement that there were no private lands, that is inaccurate."