"My point being while there are critical minerals in this location, how do you balance and weigh water supplies, endangered species, cultural heritage, tribal consultation, and executing our trust resp..."
"My point being, I mean, we are talking about the sovereignty part of it. But the consultation is any project that impacts, and I think that the answer is no."
"Today, as the Ranking Member noted, some of us are celebrating 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. Others are trying to gut it."
"The Endangered Species Act is supported by over 90 percent of the American people."
"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."
"We have drafted the Extinction Prevention Act to provide funding for some of those underfunded, most imperiled species."
"It is critical that we don't take for granted the goodwill that has been generated between us and our FSA partners."
"The 8 years that it took to pass the second Palau agreement caused significant damage to the economy of Palau."
"We must keep these challenges in mind as we consider solutions that will be of mutual benefit to our national security."
"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."
"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."