Jim Saxton: “The amendment that we are debating is, I think, a pretty commonsense amendment. The military, DOD, came to us and said…”

Mr. Speaker, during the years that I have been involved in this issue, from time to time folks come to me and say why are you concerned about the situation involving the Asian elephants. I just wanted to take a few minutes this morning to…

I want to thank Mr. Hunter for yielding time. Mr. Chairman, there has been a lot said here tonight about bipartisanship and working together, and it's absolutely been a fantastic experience for the last 2 years we've worked under the…

I take some exception to the polite assertion of the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) that the Congress of the United States perhaps in his view has not done enough or is not on a track to do enough; but at some point we have to…

Madam Chair, I rise simply to say, as we have heard from previous speakers, and perhaps to state the obvious, this piece of legislation, H.R. 1585, is a strong bill. More importantly, in my judgment it is a bill that was put together in a…