Jared Huffman

the best available science says that we need to leave most oil and gas reserves in the ground to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, and to contain the worst of the climate crisis.

instead of taking on the urgent problems facing our nation like transparently funding our government.

Offshore wind promises true energy security, reliable, low-cost, clean energy delivered to American homes, not shipped abroad to pat executives' pockets.

they are huge net emitters, they are part of the climate crisis in a big way

H.R. 1395 will reauthorize the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program (DRBRP) through 2030 and empower small, rural, and disadvantaged communities.

Even if I throw in a stack of Bruce bucks?

This formed the foundation of Representative Debbie Dingell's bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act, or RAWA.

But thoughtful, bipartisan lawmaking fell out of favor when team extreme took over the House.

the $320 million, that is essentially Monopoly money.

this bill that we are considering today is all we got.

it point blank undermines existing habitat conservation efforts.

I am old enough to remember that incident. And it seems to me that this was not EPA's mine. As I recall, there was a deadbeat mine owner, a problem we have faced throughout the country with abandoned mines and deadbeat mine owners.

it is a Trojan horse that undermines Fish and Wildlife funding.

I would like to enter into the record a stack of pretend money, we affectionately call it 'Bruce bucks,' as evidence of the actual value of the investments from this legislation.

$320 million isn't real money.

With the sunset, it actually takes you backward, right?

For wildlife conservation, which would be a great benefit to their work.

I think everybody here wants to keep species from being listed.

Let's keep species out of the emergency room.

To be clear, that is not exactly true. This bill doesn't invest anything because it doesn't appropriate any additional money.

I am not necessarily opposed to Representative Hunt's bill, but I do want to point out that we need to look at both sides of the story here when it comes to this royalty program.

The moral of the story here is this bill would pull back hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for wildlife and habitat conservation.

We know for sure that under this bill there are going to be some cuts: $1.4 billion rescinded from the IRA and IIJA.

The rewrite of the tribal title is appalling, slashing the authorization to just $20 million a year, which is supposed to cover all 574 federally recognized tribes.

The Federal Government is also there for an important reason: to protect American taxpayers and the American people to make sure we get a fair return for oil and gas companies extracting a public resource.