The signal that the FAS would receive from this change is that the U.S. is seeking to downgrade the importance of the U.S. relationship with the FAS.

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.

We have drafted the Extinction Prevention Act to provide funding for some of those underfunded, most imperiled species.

The Endangered Species Act is supported by over 90 percent of the American people.

It does not make sense to us why it is necessary to create additional bureaucratic layers when the current process has not had issues.

These agreements carry with it not only the continuation of a relationship and an alliance, but they go deeper.

The current proposal is incomplete and not ready for introduction on the house floor.

This is shared. Indeed, this issue is of such strategic and alliance importance.

Today, as the Ranking Member noted, some of us are celebrating 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. Others are trying to gut it.

The 8 years that it took to pass the second Palau agreement caused significant damage to the economy of Palau.

Nearly 50 years ago, President Nixon signed what has become one of the world's most successful conservation laws--the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Uranium mining has been detrimental to the Navajo people for many decades and I want to make sure that it does not harm any family again.