"Legislation which was signed by President Obama will authorize about 13 different projects here in the state of New Mexico, over 150 around the nation. It creates a thousand miles of wild and scenic rivers. It creates for the first time by law, the 26-million acre Bureau of Land Management national landscape system. It adds two-million acres to our national wilderness system. It greatly expands our parks and protections to places like Rocky Mountain National Park and Mount Hood in Oregon and does a host of other things. And it’s appropriate and important that we do that in New Mexico here today to celebrate that bill because of the fact that Senator Bingaman played such a keystone role as chairman of the energy committee in pulling this bill together. So I’m very proud to be here in New Mexico today celebrating this piece of legislation."