10/28/2013
https://congress.gov...
"Let's work together to improve this law, and not weaken the very components of it that have made it successful over the last 40 years."
"This, after all, is an Act that is named after two bipartisan Senators. It could just as easily have been named after the bipartisan duo in the House."
"Most importantly, instead of moving us back to the shakier and divided ground of the past, this draft bill builds on the solid and successful foundation of recent amendments to the MSA."
"I keep hearing again and again from my colleagues across the aisle, 'We don't want to see species go extinct, but,' and then begins the reasons why we have to do things to weaken the Endangered Specie..."