Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, depending on how you look at the budget, we are talking about, like, let's say $11 billion, and they just have to do a better job of prioritizing their work. It is not our fault that they are not doing the required 5-year species review. I think we agree that that should be done. So sometimes you just have to tell the bureaucracy that they need to get on the ball and do the right thing, and that's all this amendment does. And they just have to have a better set of priorities. If they are not following the current law, they just need to get up and do it. So let's pass this amendment. Let's make them follow the law. It is better for all the species involved if we know whether they are being conserved and the efforts behind them are working or not. We need to know that. So let's pass this amendment, make them follow the law. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Once again, I thank the gentleman for being here because I think we have had some discussions about the work that needs to be done on the policy committees and some of the challenges that we have in this bill with our limited resources. As my grandmother would say, and maybe you had a grandparent who had a similar saying: You can't get water out of a rock.…”