mr. soto: i thank my colleague from florida. representative val demings. first of all, thank you for your service in law enforcement. thank you for your husband's service. our sheriff, jerry demings', service in law enforcement. and to remember the one-year mark of the pulse night club shooting. "our a poem entitled ." se still beats inspiration from a brother lost too soon. a place for his memory to play he tune. alas, his pulse ceased. a safe place for a rainbow of people. full expression was presented throughout alas, his pulse this steeple. they all danced to the pulse ating sounds -- pull say thing sounds. then came a -- pulsating sounds. then came a night of celebration for many friends, from many nations. on the move to impulsive grooves. in the midst of the night, a dark figure entered. hate-filled heart and soul asplintered. his guns pulsating death. .orrors, cries as bullets fly some, they ran. and some, they died. a melee ensued amidst the smoke and gleam. and in the end terror was

mr. soto: my wife and i were having dinner with friends of ours in the district and one of them asked me how is this ban going to affect you, how is it going to affect your district? at the moment, i wasn't really sure, but then i got a call a few minutes later by my district director. our first constituent was a tified as coming back on united emirates flight back from iraq and scheduled to land the next morning. a girl who had graduated from the university of central florida and lived a very productive life as a legal resident in central florida for the last six years after her graduation. and so we went the next day, early the next morning because if anything, my legislative experience in the state legislature has told me, go to where the action is, go to where the controversy is and do what you can to help. first we went to customs and border patrol and we got no response. we actually got surprised responses of what were we even doing there, because this wasn't a matter they were prepared

soto: let's get to that. if there is reduction in leasing, is it a supply, demand or regulatory issue? mr. uillace: i would say it's primarily a demand issue. so -- rep. soto: americans in the world are reducing their demand on oil, and that is leading to less desire for leases? dr. squillace: yes, but i want to emphasize one important point about the regulatory issue. there has been a lot of discussion today about the regulations and the ways in which government regulation might limit development. i tried to point out in my original testimony, the problem here is that we're dealing with public lands and it's necessary, it's not just that it's legally required, it's necessary that we focus on what the consequences are of full field development of oil and gas resources on our public lands. that kind of development can be devastating, and it's happened a lot in our private lands, but i think it's much more problematic when it happens on public lands , so there is a regulatory component, but it's a necessary component that is designed to make sure that we're protecting all of the resources tha

so i wanted to ask if you could continue a little bit in terms of the question that mr. soto asked then you were cut off. that is i appreciate hearing both from secretary zinke and you today about the steps being taken to deal with the backlog of apds but could you talk about in terms of in the field offices as you look at the electronic permitting process, some of these internet-based solutions, how is that translating on the ground? what steps will also include perhaps moving people in wyoming in particular i know we shifted folks. but we really appreciate the change in policy but have yet to see a real breaking of the backlog. could you talk more specifically on the ground how this will affect the movement of the apds. >> absolutely. getting out there was so helpful to see what our folks and what the state is doing to keep wyoming you know, wyoming is an energy power house and we want to see it stay that way. we recognize that we need to work better with our state and local partners to make sure that we are reducing time frames when it comes to the permitting back log and