Using the CRA to repeal ESA protections is an extreme measure.

We cannot allow extreme reactions to congressional politics dictate the future of the right whale and set dangerous precedent for other species along the way.

The bill helps to ensure the survival and recovery of the North Atlantic right whale by repealing the language in last year's appropriation bill that undermines the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

These resolutions elevate pure politics over science-based wildlife management.

Representative Grijalva's bill would eliminate the time needed for crucial research into patterns of right whale distribution and abundance, and instead force a shutdown of Maine's lobster fishery.

Thank you, Chair Bentz, Ranking Member Huffman, and members of the Subcommittee for this opportunity to submit testimony.

That language was added at the last minute, did not go through any process, and enshrines regulations that don't do enough to protect right whales from fishing entanglements.

Republican solutions are to weaken and erode the critical tools our nation uses to prevent extinction.

The Great American Outdoors Act permanently authorized annual mandatory funding of $900 for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

H.J. Res. 46 uses the CRA to hamstring NOAA's designation of critical habitat.

For these reasons, we urge you to oppose H.J. Res. 29, H.J. Res. 46, and H.J. Res 49.

Today, the only thing more endangered than the species we will be talking about in this hearing seems to be Republican environmentalists.