Political Quotes

“I come to the floor this afternoon because we have heard a lot here today about Tracy Stone-Manning, her nomination to head the Bureau of Land Management, and how completely disqualified she is for that post. As you have heard, it is a critically important Agency, especially for those of us in Western States. It manages almost one-eighth of the entire land mass of the United States. In my home State of Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management oversees 18 million acres. If you came to the Energy Committee, and as I told my friend and colleague Joe Manchin, that is more territory than the entire State of his home State of West Virginia; and in the case of the Presiding Officer, more than the size of your State by a lot. It is not just my State. This Agency oversees 12 million acres of public land in Arizona, 48 million acres of land in Nevada, and 8 million in Montana. It is like that all across the West. Included in the land that it manages is almost 65 million acres of Federal forests. The Bureau is also responsible for hundreds of millions of acres of mineral land below the surface. It is critical to America's energy independence. There is a lot of energy that is under those lands. Tracy Stone-Manning has no business leading this agency--none whatsoever. She helped plan a tree spiking in one of our country's National Forests. She sent a threatening letter to the U.S. Forest Service about it.…”