Welcome United States senator orrin hatch. [applause] sen. Hatch well, thank you. Thank you so much. It is a real privilege for me to be here and an honor to introduce the president of the United States of america. Ive been given the redundant task of introducing the most famous man in the world. Its a bit like telling someone what the internet is. If you dont know by now, youve probably been living on another planet. Wed like to welcome you to planet earth. If you need us to take you to our leader, hes right here. Humor aside, im thankful to be here with our president. He and i have been friends for quite some time. Im so grateful he would accept my invitation to come to my home state of utah today. Ive served under many president s, seven, to be exact. But none is like the man we have in the white house today. When you talk, this president listens. I learned this during his first week on the job. It was a wednesday afternoon in january when the president called me into the oval offic
Now we take you to Salt Lake City where President Trump announced that large parts of two National Monuments in the state totaling over 3 million acres would no longer receive protection under the Antiquities Act. He made the announcement in a speech at the utah state capital more than 250 miles away from the site. [applause] sen. Hatch thank you. Introduce the to president of United States of america. Ive been given the redundant task of introducing the most famous man in the world. Its a bit like telling someone what the internet is. If you dont know by now, youve probably been living on another planet. Wed like to welcome you to planet earth. If you need us to take you to our leader, hes right here. I might mention i am set to bring him up here. Humor aside, im thankful to be here with our president. He and i have been friends for quite some time. Im so grateful he would accept my invitation to come to my home state of utah today. Ive served under many president s, seven, to be exac
Lee edwards chronicles his sixyear involvement in the conservative movement. I met joe mccarthy through my father was something of a confidant to him. He was a hail fellow will met. You could ask for more fun guy to be with. He was very serious about that. And he was he was also somebody who did not take advice. Consequently said things or did things that hurt the cause for some time. The House National Resource Committee on federal land held a hearing recently on a bill that would create a National Park out of lands that were previously part of the Grand Staircase monument. It was established by president clinton in 1986. It is downsized by president trump. I would ask you unanimous consent that mr. Stewart could be allowed to sit with the subcommittee and participate. Without objection. So ordered. Under Community Committee rule. They are limited to the chairman and chairman ranking majority member. It will allow them to help keep to their schedules. We are probably going to be inter
Use by executive land holding agencies. In your opinion do you believe that gsa has done everything in its power to give life to the directives embodied in section 6409 which you referenced in your testimony of middle class tax relief act . Have they done everything they can . Mr. Chairman, i do not believe they have. As a matter of fact, im a former administrator myself of the federal agency and if i had implemented something too poorly that congress instructed me to do id be embarrassed. Theres an executive order by the president of the United States correcting gsa to move faster to get these contracts together and to date nothing has been done. Three years after Congress Enact this legislation, progress has been slow gsa hasnt been proactive. Proactive. I think our members are having to negotiate for each and every site individually just as they have in the past. Gsa has not implemented the intent of congress and we cant wait three more years for whats needed i think today. Theres a
View of the Current Foreign Affairs situation with regards to our own approach to things. You mentioned the e. U. And you said that our partners the e. U. Would be would feel that the e. U. Would be unrecognizable if britain were to leave. Surely that should be our goal foreign secretary, that we want the e. U. To be fundamentally challenged as the Prime Minister has given the commitment to. So surely that should be an encouragement to us to be bold about the type of changes that we want more towards trading cooperation and less of a commit ral union. That is my first question. The second question is this, you are the foreign and commonwealth secretary and i dont think the commonwealth was mentioned ones in your remarks. Do we still have the c in fcos and did you replace it and put it back and did the british overseas sovereignty that we govern issues that need to be addressed as well. Any one of them in particular . [ laughter ] the record will show that i did mention the commonwealth