Richard Pombo

So in essence what happened with your constituent in this case was you had someone who lost basically nearly all the value of her property, which she was going to use for retirement, but it could have been my property or anyone's property…

So what we are faced with today is that the Endangered Species Act as it is being implemented today is not good for species, is not recovering species, is not helping out with wildlife, and at the same time it is causing severe economic…

The intention of the amendment, because it is a pilot program and is a temporary program, if it were to be made a permanent program, the repeal of the H-2A program so that we would have one program, would be the intention of the committee…

I think that the facts may surprise a few people. Out of 650 million acres that the Federal Government currently owns, 35 million acres have been bought in the last 20 years... the Federal Government owns 4 million acres in the State of…

When we started getting into this whole argument about what we did with NSB, the National Biological Survey, in maintaining the science function, I was told as we passed on the House floor last year, there was a ban on volunteers, that the…

If the director of the National Biological Survey is giving me bad information, I apologize.

I would just like to comment that the reason that we wanted to ban volunteers in the scientific part of this bill was we feel that we need to depend upon better science than what is being used right now, and that if you have volunteers out…

the reason that we are banning them on science is that you are fully aware of the fact that there is very little effort on the part of private property owners in this country to participate with volunteers. We feel that the best way to…

Yes. We are talking about literally billions of dollars that are involved here. Recently in California we had the fairy shrimp listed. The fairy shrimp, I believe, will have a larger impact on California than anything that has been on the…

Reclaiming my time, I think we went far enough when we went to 10 percent. I mean, I was trying to be nice about that. In regard to another comment that was made about zeroing in on environmental laws, I would just like to point out that…

Do you think that maybe small property owners may be hurt by losing 20 percent of their property?

the study on the 10,000 was based on, if it is the same study I saw, was based on one island and what happened on that one island and extrapolated throughout the entire country.

I originally came down here to ask you one thing, and as you continued, there is something else I have to ask you. You said that we had one species a year for a million years.

The main reason why I came down here is because you and I have discussed this issue for a number of years about what to do. You have always said that you want to help, that you do want to protect people's private property and that that is…

If this legislation were to pass and in a few months when it is law, would Fish and Wildlife act in the same way and go out and just designate everything that they see as potential habitat and gain control of it? Or would they prioritize…

Several years ago, as a cattleman in the Central Valley in California, I was faced with the frustrations of dealing with the Federal Government and the ever growing bureaucracy, and as I became more and more involved with what was going on…

In one of your examples, you talked about, I believe it was Mr. Dye, who had what would be suitable habitat or potential habitat for an endangered species, and they want to restrict the use of his property, based on the fact that if an…

So it would not bust budgets and Mr. Dye would not be able to back his U-Haul trailer up to the U.S. Treasury to take money because the U.S. Agency would be forced to be responsible for the first time in 40 years?

I wanted to ask one of the authors of the amendment a question on that. That is that at a recent Committee on Agriculture hearing on private property rights that the gentleman was in attendance at, the question of the Reagan Executive…

I am pleased to see that the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act we are debating today is moving steadily toward passage in the House of Representatives. This measure, H.R. 5, is long overdue. For too many years, the Federal Government has been…

It was combining. This was my concern, combining, commingling, official money with outside money, and that was my concern, and that is why I signed onto the letter.

Madam Speaker, when I first got here I came from the State of California, and I represent the State of California where we do have open meeting laws, and we are required to conduct our business in the open, and, as the previous gentleman…

Yes. Those are current roads, currently being used for access by those property owners. This bill would prohibit the use of those roads.

Yes, they are. All of the shiny dots currently represent a section of property which is privately owned; a section of property being 640 acres, or 1 square mile.

If Members will look at these valid private property areas that are included in this one map, and I have many others if anybody would like to see the others, they will see that without this guaranteed access, without leaving these roads…