Ronald Reagan once said that veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they have suffered the scars of war.

I strongly urge you to withdraw the proposal or completely rework it.

When I became Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee earlier this year, I laid out a vision for our public lands with my Republican colleagues that was focused on increasing access.

As a former Navy helicopter pilot, I know that she understands how difficult it can be for our country's veterans to return to civilian life.

I strongly urge you to withdraw the proposal or completely rework it.

This is a very important issue to America and to the Freely Associated States and to, I would say, freedom around the world, in a sense.

This could create a situation where U.S. agencies would elect to not provide those services, furthering opportunities for PRC influence in the FAS.

Unfortunately, litigants now use the ESA as a control tactic to preserve lands, or try to preserve lands and pursue radical agendas.

Instead, we should be pursuing a noble conservation mission.

the purpose of this Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved.

What is so radical about taking a fresh look at a law that is 50 years old that was put in place by Republicans and championed by Republicans?

Instead of wringing our hands or chipping away at ESA's protections and then complaining about that it is not working, Congress should do more of what it did in the IRA.

What the proposed regulation under this Administration does, and I think sometimes it has been mischaracterized, is it finds that very reasoned and steady attempt to have a durable solution to critical habitat designation going forward.

I want to make the ESA work, wants to make it something that is effective, that really is about helping species.

I also want to again thank Ranking Member Grijalva for working together to make this a bipartisan task force.

I would like to take a moment to give credit to Special Envoy Yun for his successful negotiations with the FSM and Palau.

If indeed the issue is to offset any intrusion and incursion by the Chinese Communist Party, then issues such as offsets, revenue generation, I don't say they become secondary, but this should not be an impediment to moving forward with an…

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