Political Quotes

“I would like to put a couple things straight that have been said. We are not talking about all Federal lands in this bill. We are not talking about National Park Service lands. National parks and national monuments are excluded from this bill. We are not talking about wilderness. We are not talking about lands that have been recommended for wilderness status. Those are managed as de facto wilderness. We are not talking about wildlife refuges. We are not talking about Department of Defense lands. We are not talking about Bureau of Reclamation lands. We are only talking about Bureau of Land Management lands that are managed for multiple use now. We are also talking about a Nation that desperately needs jobs. Mr. Chair, I was in a country in the Arab world last weekend. They have 6.5 percent employment in the private sector. Everyone else is either unemployed or works for the government. Their neighbors prop up their economies to keep their problems from spilling over the borders into their countries. For a country that has been clamoring for jobs to smack down this bill as being irrelevant indicates to me that Congress has lost its way, that it doesn't understand that what the American people want is to work. They want earned success. They want self- respect. They want jobs. H.R.…”