Rob Bishop: “We are really talking about what we deal with--private property rights.”

Is the Speaker telling me that if the Republicans have cleared this bill and are in favor of it, it has to have a written clearance from the Democrat side more than simply verbal commitment to the Tribes? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair…

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

Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.

Is the gentleman sure he really wants the Federal Government having a forest in his place?