"when you create habitat for the woodpecker you create habitat that falls right in line with what the bat likes."
"I was born a conservative and a conservationist, Mr. Huffman."
"if they find the bat on the Federal land, that their forest management is done."
"The root word of conservation is 'conserve.'"
"it made absolutely no sense to me that, in the name of protecting the bat, there were actions and talk of stopping forest management."
"the numbers don't lie, that 24 percent--not quite 25--but of deferred maintenance from the National Park Service went to Speaker Pelosi, former Speaker Pelosi's district."
"In total, the National Park Service spent more than $365 million last year on deferred maintenance in Nancy Pelosi's district."
"This $200 million earmark orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi represents a 3,113 percent increase in the amount of Federal funding received by the Presidio last year."
"The $200 million for deferred maintenance was an earmark."
"There wasn't supposed to be taxpayer dollars."
"The only way I have found to get their attention is through the strings of the purse."