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.

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

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.