03/30/2009
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"Today, as the Ranking Member noted, some of us are celebrating 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. Others are trying to gut it."
"We are now facing unprecedented rates of global warming, habitat destruction, and degradation, and our world is at the risk of losing 1 million species."
"The Endangered Species Act is supported by over 90 percent of the American people."
"I think there is still urgency."