Rob Bishop: “So if we have excess Federal land, just over 1 percent of the BLM, my bill suggests that we would sell that back to…”

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.

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

I think many of those local fisheries on the coast would have some quibbling with your jurisdictional approach.

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…