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…

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

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.

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.

The proposed legislation also incorporates the bicameral and bipartisan Care for COFA Veterans Act, which will provide improvements to medical care access to veterans in the Freely Associated States.

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

The Compact with our Free Association partners is a national security and foreign policy success story.

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

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

I am concerned that this could cause bureaucratic delays and mismanagement.

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

I am disappointed by the due diligence conducted by the Biden administration.

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?

So again, that is exactly what we would like to do. In this bill with Senator Tester our intent is to identify the programs that are working in order to better resource them, and identify the programs that do not work, so that we can…

We need to make sure that we have the right ranges, right capabilities so that we can train.

I would like to thank Ranking Member Neguse and Congresswoman Lesko for introducing the bipartisan Women's Suffrage National Monument to be placed on the National Mall.

That is why Senator Tester and I teamed up to introduce the Not Just a Number Act, which would allow us to study this issue from a holistic standpoint.