On the recordJuly 29, 2014
Commissioner Jankovsky found the State maps inaccurate, overstating the area of sage grouse habitat. The map he commissioned for Garfield County showed 70 percent less habitat for sage grouse. Whose map should the Federal Government accept as the best available science, the Colorado State map or Garfield County's? This bill gives equal weight to both. Mr. Chairman, this is a bad bill, and no amendment can make it a good bill. It should be rejected. Rather than addressing some of the compelling challenges that this Nation is confronting, we are wasting time on a bill that may pass the House but will go nowhere in the Senate and certainly will not become law. I urge its defeat.
