Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of Kansas farmers, ranchers, and energy producers who take it upon themselves to conserve the land and vulnerable species in rural Kansas each and every day. In recent months, these Kansans have felt the Biden administration's massive overreach as D.C. bureaucrats use the Federal Government to overregulate hardworking Americans a thousand miles from the swamp. In 2015, the Fish and Wildlife Service listed the lesser prairie- chicken as endangered, only to delist it a year later as their analysis was flawed. Despite losing a court case and seeing an actual increase in the lesser prairie-chicken population, they are now classified as threatened and endangered in two distinct population segments in the United States. Kansas farmers, ranchers, and energy producers, those closer to the lesser prairie-chicken habitat, are excellent stewards of natural resources. They have repeatedly demonstrated responsible actions as they tend the land that feeds and fuels the world. What they don't need is a heavy-handed government approach to land management, especially when those mandates are unfounded and not based on actual science. Today, we can correct this mistaken classification with a Congressional Review Act. Even in a divided Senate, the CRA resolution passed with bipartisan support.…”