[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        NATIONAL PUBLIC LAND DAY

  (Mr. BISHOP of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 
National Public Land Day. Whoopee.
  I am also reading a book about the members of my church trying to 
live in post-World War II East Germany where all building was 
restricted. If they wished to have a house in which to worship and it 
was on government land, the government always owned the building and 
could possess it at any time. If they actually wished to possess the 
building, they had to find private land to trade to the government 
because the official policy of East Germany was ``no net loss of 
federal land.''
  I mention that because communist East Germany has the same policy 
standard as the Department of the Interior and Forest Service have 
today.
  Mr. Speaker, either we are wrong or East Germany was right, and I 
sincerely doubt the latter is accurate.

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