Bruce Westerman actually said...

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

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

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.

I stand ready to work with our partners.