Tom McClintock

When ecological trumps the social and those economic values, you have gone beyond the mandates that Congress set for them.

Are we watching with the current administration of the Forest Service an abandonment, indeed a repudiation, of Gifford Pinchot's vision of managing the forests to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run, his words?

You assessed these at the very top of the market and haven't reassessed them since.

That is gobbledygook. What specific actions have you taken?

It seems to me that we are slowly inching back toward those bad old days that the Magna Carta redressed.

I applaud them for their efforts, and I thank them for their leadership on this issue.

Arbitrary and capricious manner

This Subcommittee must take notice.

Is there a recovery plan?

That invites the question of whether this new critical habitat designation is political, if it is not scientifically justified.

His language left no question what he thought of the abuse of power within the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Do you believe the 2005 critical habitat designation was scientifically justified?

I represent the headwaters of the Sacramento Delta. And I can assure you without additional storage, additional conveyance is a nonstarter.

If that is the case, what I said to their economist, you had better study the effect on lost construction, lost jobs, lost economic activity, if we cannot replace the water that you are going to take.

We have been doing it for a long time. We are getting pretty good at it as a species.

When a judge uses words like 'arbitrary and capricious,' accuses the national Fish and Wildlife Service scientists of lying for political goals, we take that very, very seriously.

If this action by the Fish and Wildlife Service continues, we will not have the water to grow.

These ideologues abandoned projects in mid-construction.

Consider this a request from the Subcommittee that you provide this Subcommittee with that information as well, and that you do so expeditiously.

I'm convinced, that instead of spending another half trillion dollars of taxpayer money on a questionable stimulus plan, Congress needs to help private industry create more jobs by reducing the burden of over-regulation.

This policy has laid waste to a quarter-million acres of the most fertile farmland in America.

Hold them accountable for the damage they have done

I agree that as Americans we must manage our native species so they thrive for future generations; however, I do not believe that managing America's natural resources and promoting America's continued economic prosperity are mutually…

If we were selling off this excess land, it seems to me two things would happen.

Well, what we have found in the northeastern corner of California is the Federal Government is a lousy landlord and an even worse neighbor.