Jared Huffman: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, there is so much I would like to say about my friend, Don Young. And…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, there is so much I would like to say about my friend, Don Young. And some of you are probably wondering how could Don Young, the crusty, old conservative from Alaska be friends with a liberal Democrat from California like Jared Huffman, an environmental radical. Well, it wasn't because we agreed on Arctic drilling. It wasn't because we agreed on the Endangered Species Act or so many other things. We fought about those things. In fact, I will always remember our colleague, Mike Levin's, first Natural Resource Committee hearing. Don Young was shaking his fist at me, saying that he wanted to go out in the hall to settle our differences, and Mike couldn't believe it. And I told him that was nothing. That was tame by Don Young standards. You should have seen him last year. Don didn't actually wink when he did these things, but he didn't need to because we both knew that the next time I saw him, we would be laughing about it, having a glass of Chardonnay. Believe it or not, we did find some things to work on. We had a mutual love of fishing and salmon. We found lots of legislation to do together on those subjects. We both represent a lot of Indian country. We found common cause there. We worked together on national and international wildlife conservation. Now, he wanted to conserve wildlife so he could kill it.…”