Jared Huffman

You have put a lot of work into a recovery plan, as you are required to do under the Endangered Species Act.

This is outside the normal scope of the hearing and outside the House rules.

Endangering our coastline and its resources would have devastating impacts economically on my area in particular.

Chairman, courtesy is as courtesy does.

The Agency is concerned about the survival of this population.

The mission of the National Marine Fisheries Service is not to promote fossil fuel energy dominance, is it?

If more is not done to save this iconic species, scientists predict it will go extinct in the next few decades.

I think the answers are altogether too obvious.

this completely undermines our foundational environmental laws, like the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.

There are less than 420 right whales remaining. That is fewer right whales in existence than Members of Congress.

One of the things that I hope to do in this Subcommittee, with many of these informational hearings, is to reset the factual and scientific baseline for these issues that we debate.

the Trump administration is now actively threatening the long-term survival of these whales by opening up the Atlantic Coast to seismic air gun blasting and oil and gas exploration activities.

It is imperative that this Subcommittee work on these kinds of common-sense projects that will promote water supply reliability for all stakeholders.

Members of the Subcommittee, this Administration's war on salmon must be stopped in its tracks.

What is more valuable to western states, paper water or wet water?

Is it fair to say that over the last century, California and other western states have identified the most productive sites for dams?

Sending water to the ocean is not wasting it--it is an investment in biodiversity, in the fishing industry, and our coastal communities.

One policy option that we will hopefully agree on is the need to invest in water infrastructure.

I worked across the aisle with Representative Gosar on a bill that would regularly require the Bureau of Reclamation to assess and publicly disclose major repair and rehabilitation needs.

I believe this is an important hearing, an important chance to examine the state of water supply reliability in our Nation.

Finding consensus on tough issues is a formidable task.

Looking forward, the projects and standards being pursued at the Federal level will only help push salmon and West Coast commercial fishermen to extinction.

It's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work on climate change.

I think there is a lot of common ground that we can work on together.

The Trump administration has gone out of its way, engaged in herculean efforts to breathe life into what I think most other objective observers would say is a dying industry, coal.