Doc Hastings

To say this entire rulemaking process has been unorthodox would be a gross understatement.

It is astonishing, the lengths this Administration will go to withhold information from the public.

May I inquire how much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman for his amendment. This is, as he said in his opening remark: simply a commonsense approach that those that are in the process now should avail themselves of potential changes in law. It is an excellent amendment, and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just want to point out that the areas that this amendment affects have already been set aside for mineral development. I want to repeat that, Mr. Chairman: these have already been set aside for mineral…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. And I think that his amendment makes eminently good sense. It's exactly these sort of rulings that tie up our natural resources, and we should be utilizing them. I think the gentleman has a good…

I would just advise my friend that I am prepared to close if the gentleman from Massachusetts is prepared to close.

I'm very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy).

I'm very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford).

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden).

Before I yield to the gentleman from Michigan, I yield myself 30 seconds. The gentleman from New Jersey disparaged, I guess, sand and gravel. Madam Chairman, I would point out to you that I think, after the earthquakes in northern…

The gentleman obviously can't respond. I reclaim my time. I am very pleased at this point to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar), a member of the Natural Resources Committee.

What page? I asked the gentleman--I'm yielding to him to respond to me at what page. The gentleman cannot respond.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the author of this legislation, the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Amodei).

I'm very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn), who is the chairman of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee on the Committee on Natural Resources.

We may be small, but our national park was crucial to the birth of our great Nation.

We are the only State in the Union without a national park.

The first State, though, to ratify the Constitution, the first State of the Union...

We need to have the park available to those that are working there and need to be in there on a daily basis.

The mere fact that we have three distinct site and three distinct States, obviously, nothing--you know, we learn that one size doesn't fit all many times.

There is a sincere and shared desire by Chairman Bingaman, Senators Murray and Cantwell, and our colleagues to establish the Park, and we'll continue working together with local advocates to accomplish our goal of ensuring these remarkable…

I want to thank Congressmen Doc Hastings, Chuck Fleischmann and Ben Lujan, sponsors of this bill.

I am Heather McClenahan, executive director of the Los Alamos Historical Society...

I share the passion with you, because I have been with you out at the site.

We want this bill to pass, we support this bill. We have tremendous support on the part of the communities.