"This is an important hearing for our House Agriculture Committee to get a report early in the year."
"I mean, there are multiple factors in this. We have more population, we have rivers down the coast far below San Francisco that no longer provide the fishery resource that they used to because of a wh..."
"We have to be--and if we are repairing--guess what? More hurricanes are going to come, more tornadoes are going to come, more floods are going to come, and wildfires."
"The impacts of climate change are one of the most significant challenges we face in the 21st century."
"I think the way it operates today, it is a blunt tool."
"I think, unfortunately, we have a situation with the ESA, where it is the initial blunt instrument that stops us."
"I think it is really time the Committee take a serious look at modifications of the Endangered Species Act."
"the grazing allotments within six national forests I have in my district are pushed back farther and farther on the burner, and the costs keep going up because of NEPA."
"Those increases, I think, are very harmful to people who want to have access to the parks."
"I find it somewhat saddening that some of our colleagues here on the Committee continue to think that growing food is of less importance."
"I think the oversight hearing exploring innovative solutions to reduce the Department of the Interior's maintenance backlog on our parks and our recreational facilities throughout the country is appro..."