Bruce Westerman: “Mr. Speaker, as we are getting close to breaking for the Christmas…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2025

Mr. Speaker, as we are getting close to breaking for the Christmas holiday, I am glad that this last bill that the Natural Resources Committee will offer is one that we will have a debate on that will resolve an issue that has united the Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump administrations alike. I am not sure there is another issue like that out there, but this is one of them because each of those administrations has agreed that the gray wolf is a recovered species and should be removed from the Endangered Species Act, or ESA, protection. H.R. 845, the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, sponsored by Representatives Boebert and Tiffany, instructs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-issue its 2020 final rule that delisted the gray wolf from the list of threatened and endangered species in the entire lower 48 States. Recovery of the gray wolf is a true ESA success story, and there aren't a lot of them.

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Bruce Westerman

Republican · Arkansas

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Discussing the Pet and Livestock Protection Act and the recovery of the gray wolf.

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Bruce Westerman: “Mr. Speaker, as we are getting close to breaking for the Christmas holiday, I am glad that this last bill that the…”

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