I want to add my voice of thanks. I think that you showed us today you are a voice of reason.

I have the right of free speech. And that is my opinion, and I will say it again, I thought you held your cool under what I thought was rude questioning.

The Endangered Species Act should not be repealed in this backdoor way.

If we do not make significant changes, we are going to have to get the American people motivated to weigh in against what the Republicans are trying to do--repeal the Endangered Species Act.

Mr. Chairman, thank you so much, Members of the Committee, nice to be here. I am honored to be here.

All the back door efforts by special interests to undermine the ESA have to stop.

The ESA has a strong record of success, and without it, we might have lost the very symbol of our nation--the bald eagle.

I urge my colleagues to support S. 1081 and join me in banning these cruel body-gripping traps from wildlife refuges.

this bill is even worse. It says for 6 years you can't do any listing.

We have to remember, I think it was Richard Nixon who signed the Endangered Species Act, Richard Nixon.

A recent poll of the American people shows that 84 percent support the ESA, which was passed by an overwhelmingly bipartisan voice vote in the Senate, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon.

Well, the fact that you are delisting shows that the ESA is working.