It does not make sense to us why it is necessary to create additional bureaucratic layers when the current process has not had issues.

This change was clearly not requested by the DOI.

This is shared. Indeed, this issue is of such strategic and alliance importance.

I think the issue of mandatory is essential in this discussion.

It is critical that we don't take for granted the goodwill that has been generated between us and our FSA partners.

Why isn't the Biden administration taking a more active role to secure funding?

We must keep these challenges in mind as we consider solutions that will be of mutual benefit to our national security.

The signal that the FAS would receive from this change is that the U.S. is seeking to downgrade the importance of the U.S. relationship with the FAS.

I am very hopeful that we will find a path.

I think there is still urgency.

We are now facing unprecedented rates of global warming, habitat destruction, and degradation, and our world is at the risk of losing 1 million species.

the ESA is failing in one of its core missions: recovering endangered and threatened species.

the status quo is not good enough, nor is it sustainable.

The current proposal is incomplete and not ready for introduction on the house floor.

the odds of it being implemented at that cost are so slim?

Today, as the Ranking Member noted, some of us are celebrating 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. Others are trying to gut it.

These agreements carry with it not only the continuation of a relationship and an alliance, but they go deeper.

Nearly 50 years ago, President Nixon signed what has become one of the world's most successful conservation laws--the U.S. Endangered Species Act.