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

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

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

this Subcommittee must take notice.

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

These ideologues abandoned projects in mid-construction.

arbitrary and capricious manner

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

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.

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

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