[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2329]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           FEDERAL LAND GRAB

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, where will it all end? First the EPA 
decides to regulate breathing, and now we learn that the Department of 
the Interior is planning a land grab that is so brazen that it is 
difficult to believe.
  By misusing the Antiquities Act, the White House is planning to lock 
up more than 13 million acres of land in 11 Western States, including 
more than 2.5 million in Montana alone, much of which is privately 
owned. And they can do it without so much as one single public hearing 
or a vote in Congress.
  Some of that land belongs to private citizens who have no idea that 
the Federal Government is planning to kick them off their ranches. If 
the government can do this to them, what can it do to you?
  When policies like cap-and-trade, government-run health care, and 
establishment of new Federal lands are unpopular, you don't merely 
bypass Congress or change the rule to ram it through. Americans are 
sick of secret bureaucratic overreach and Washington, D.C., tricks.

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