John Dingell: “I hope that the undertaking will be bipartisan in order so that any final product that we complete here moves through…”

The goal Congress set then was unparalleled in all of history. Our country resolved to put an end to the decades--indeed, centuries--of neglect that had resulted in the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, and the…

Establishment of a refuge does not instantly make the Federal Government a steward of an area of land.

Only a piddling amount.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.