"Thank you, Chairman Lamborn and Ranking Member Huffman, for holding this hearing today."
"I applaud you for hosting this hearing."
"This strikes a balance between preserving traditional cultural fishing in these areas and the overall intent to prevent large scale commercial fishing of these billfish."
"I have the honor of representing central Florida up here. And I also applaud my colleague from Florida, Congressman Webster, for his work on this issue as well."
"Mr. Secretary, first I want to thank you for publishing the sand skink relocation permit in the Federal Register this week."
"Do we have your commitment to hold the line on at least the threatened status for manatees, given the erratic population numbers over the past couple of years, due to weather?"
"We just want to make sure it is no longer deemed a subspecies when there is ample scientific basis from some of our local universities."
"As you know, there has been a 30 percent decline in the African elephant population from 2007 to 2014."
"I just want to express my concern of shifting it further than that, because we have a large shift in population based upon if we have a cold winter."
"I was thrilled initially to hear that Florida's offshore drilling plan was off the table."
"I think it is only reasonable to have a mix of Federal and private dollars for that recovery."