Jared Huffman

If you are going to actually try to protect the environment, protect some lands, they want you to run through the most robust, rigorous, impenetrable environmental process that anyone could conceive.

Where you drill, you spill.

I am writing to ask for your urgent assistance regarding a stock assessment for the Northern California coast that prompted the closure of a vital fishery and cause significant harm to coastal communities for years to come.

the Colorado River is at a crisis point.

This is a huge mistake. We are going in the wrong direction at the worst possible time.

Yes, and thank you also for--I just want to agree with you when you say that you feel like we need more interagency coordination to tackle this.

We need to promote climate resilience, restoration, and conservation across our public lands and waters.

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is depleting our oceans of fish, damaging marine ecosystems, and enabling widespread human rights abuses and forced labor on fishing vessels around the world.

This is staggering. It should be a wakeup call. This problem is huge.

the bill, unfortunately, contains draconian cuts that would imperil endangered species, impede our climate readiness, and repeal critical funding under the Inflation Reduction Act.

I hope a few other committees will do the same because we now know a lot more about this because of the recent bombshell report the Outlaw Ocean Project detailed in The New Yorker.

I hope we can work together to avoid a government shutdown.

The fact of the matter is nature is not a zoo. Just counting tigers in the zoo doesn't mean you have saved the tiger from extinction.

The hypocrisy in this bill is astounding.

The main villain is the critically endangered Rice's whale, a species with a population of about 50 individuals.

This bill is a slap in the face to conservation science.

H.R. 6008, Representative Graves' bill, would be harder to conceive of a piece of legislation that would be more centrally destructive of the purpose of the Endangered Species Act to prevent extinction.

There really is no room for error on this whale, and yet the bill sponsored by Representative Graves basically would put a halt on all efforts to protect the whale.

Thank you again for this opportunity to respond to the questions from Subcommittee Ranking Member Huffman and Representative Dingell.

The essential problem, and the reason it runs completely counter to the Endangered Species Act, is that it overlooks the most important part of the Act, which is to conserve and protect the ecosystems in the wild in which these animals…

I am experiencing some deja vu in the Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee today as we consider the latest bills from Team Extreme's extinction agenda.

Instead of focusing on the future needs of wildlife, this legislates extinction.

I just wanted to get that clarified for the record.

So, H.R. 520 creates a lot of mischief, I would say.

The three ESA-related bills we will hear about today pushed draconian, anti-science regulations that ignore climate change.