91.   Central to the Norton nomination will be a philosophical shift over private use of public lands, particularly in the West.

92.   Clinton also signed legislation to untangle the system of royalty payments that the federal government receives from companies drilling on public land.

93.   Conflicts between large farms in the West and recreational users of the land have increased in recent years as public land use has soared.

94.   Clinton has received a great deal of criticism from those who advocate a multiple-use concept on public lands.

95.   Congress should sell public grazing lands to these anti-government ranchers, or whoever pays the highest price.

96.   Congressional delegations from Western states were silent about these withdrawals of public lands from mining and drilling.

97.   Conservationists say the amount of money made available to them for their campaign was unprecedented for a public lands issue.

98.   Congress can and has given the executive branch certain authority over public lands.

99.   Consider, for example, the GOP attempts to open up public lands to drilling and mining, weaken environmental regulations, and protect businesses from lawsuits.

100.   Critics of the swap say that the public lands potentially contain billions of dollars worth of copper ore.