Jared Huffman

While we fully support meaningful efforts to conserve whales and other marine species, we would like to express our strong concerns and opposition to the proposed changes.

We have to take action to reduce the risk from vessel strikes if we are to prevent what now is up to 30 mortalities per year from vessel strikes and entanglements.

I think this is a great opportunity for Congress to sort of reclaim that broader settlement from the 1970s.

The Framers set up the Constitution the way they did with checks and balances, precisely because they knew that we could not rely on any President of any party to restrain himself or herself.

Clearly, Congress needs to engage and bring some scrutiny to these open-ended emergency authorities. It is long overdue that we do that.

Cutting NOAA's budget means cutting services that make our country safe and boost economic activity.

Can you tell the Committee what the harmful impacts would be for the public if Reclamation had to absorb budget cuts as big as what is being proposed?

If we are serious about protecting species, recovering ecosystems, and helping communities combat climate change, we must adequately fund our Federal agencies in these regards.

The budget cuts that are being proposed would hinder recovery of vulnerable species and their habitats.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act expressly states in Section 208 that our management needs to preserve and protect certain public lands.

I think you can see that that has become a word that makes some of our colleagues across the aisle squirm these days.

But my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are proposing deep cuts that would devastate these agencies and put it at risk.

I want to applaud BLM for promoting renewable energy development on our public lands despite the challenges...

It seems to me that this proposed rule is perfectly consistent with your mission, in fact, it is a refreshing modernization of it in a system that has been wildly out of balance in favor of extractive industry for too long.

Most of us define it a little bit differently.

Our public lands are a critical resource. They are unparalleled in their contributions to preserving our country's natural heritage and biodiversity.

Fortunately, over the past several years, Congress and the Biden administration have made great strides in achieving policy victories and investments in clean energy.

For too long, there has been an imbalance of power on Federal lands that swings far toward extractive industries and away from communities and climate action.

These things that you have done are a type of streamlining, a type of permit reform.

The regional economy would be far better off, both in terms of more income and more jobs, if there was no mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters.

We have a misinformation problem here in this Committee.

This is unconstitutional stuff. And that is one of the bills that we are considering.

NEPA is becoming a less compelling boogeyman all the time.

We are once again discussing the apparently dire need to attack and gut NEPA so that we can speed up fossil fuel development and mining.

They don't like NEPA. They don't want to have to do alternative analysis. They don't want to have to limit environmental impacts.