As a top-ranking State in livestock production, Arkansas is in need of food animal veterinarians like many other places around the country. In 2022, 25 counties within my district applied for designated shortage area status. Of the 25…

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

I am disappointed by the due diligence conducted by the Biden administration.

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

I also want to again thank Ranking Member Grijalva for working together to make this a bipartisan task force.

This could create a situation where U.S. agencies would elect to not provide those services, furthering opportunities for PRC influence in the FAS.

What the proposed regulation under this Administration does, and I think sometimes it has been mischaracterized, is it finds that very reasoned and steady attempt to have a durable solution to critical habitat designation going forward.

What is so radical about taking a fresh look at a law that is 50 years old that was put in place by Republicans and championed by Republicans?

I and my colleagues have been engaged in a bipartisan effort under the CRA to reverse the Service's rescission of 'habitat' definition.

Instead of wringing our hands or chipping away at ESA's protections and then complaining about that it is not working, Congress should do more of what it did in the IRA.

The Compact with our Free Association partners is a national security and foreign policy success story.

I would like to take a moment to give credit to Special Envoy Yun for his successful negotiations with the FSM and Palau.