Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2950) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the Coastal Program of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to work with willing partners and provide support to efforts to assess, protect, restore, and enhance important coastal landscapes that provide fish and wildlife habitat on which certain Federal trust species depend, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 2950 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023''. SEC. 2. PURPOSE. The purpose of this Act is to legislatively authorize the Coastal Program of the Service in effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act to conduct collaborative landscape- level planning and on-the-ground coastal habitat assessment, coastal habitat protection, coastal habitat restoration, and coastal habitat enhancement projects in priority coastal landscapes to conserve and recover Federal trust species. SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Coastal ecosystem.--The term ``coastal ecosystem'' means a biological community of organisms interacting with each other and their habitats in a coastal landscape.…”