As Chairman Kline himself explained when the regulation was proposed, it threatens to impose a multibillion regulatory tax on schools across the country.

At the end of the day, it will be America's poorest neighborhoods that are impacted the most, and that is the last thing we intended as Congress when it passed the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Nothing excuses the fact that what it is proposing is simply unlawful.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 5963, the Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act. Every child deserves the opportunity to achieve a lifetime of success. That's what this legislation is…

I've got to tell you, as someone who considers himself to be a free market Republican, a part of me has been uncomfortable with where some of this hearing has gone.

Last week Fish and Wildlife announced that your captive breeding population was unsustainable at its current level.

Mr. Speaker, if no one is claiming time in opposition, I would like to claim that time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would inquire if the gentleman from New Jersey is opposed to the bill.

For decades, ineffective, and sometimes destructive, Federal management of wolves has negatively impacted communities, economies, livestock, family businesses, recreationists, and even family pets in vast swaths of our Nation.

So, by reintroducing between 132, as I understood, and 165 wolves from your captive breeding program into the wild, instead of 12, you have effectively decimated your own captive breeding program.

Well, is it true that you plan on doubling the size of your captive breeding program?

Mismanagement on the part of the Fish and Wildlife Service, as identified by the Office of Inspector General, has raised even more concerns about wolf recovery efforts across the board.

This announcement came after the Wildlife Management Institute and the OIG found that the Service violated its own rule by releasing 132 red wolves when it had only planned to release 12.

However, instead of canceling the failed red wolf program, the Service is instead planning to nearly double the size of its captive breeding population.

For decades, ineffective and sometimes destructive Federal management of wolves has negatively impacted communities, economies, livestock, family businesses, recreationists, and even family pets in vast swaths of our Nation.

I hope that you will take a moment at some point and think about how it sounds to some of us if you introduce far more wolves than you anticipated introducing, and the program ended up being a terrible failure.

I appreciate my friend from Louisiana pointing out the grandstanding. That is kind of what I felt about the sit-in that occurred on the House floor.

Isn't it possible, Mr. Guertin, that you have dramatically under-estimated the habitat size needed in order to sustain one red wolf?

management of wolves is a critical concern for citizens of a large portion of our Nation.