"I appreciate it. Thank you all for being here, as always, your services and most importantly, thank you for being there every minute of the day for decades to make sure we get this right and bring this expertise to it."
"I think Dr. Roe summed it up right. I don't think any of us have seen the level of services being provided by the VA."
"I think it is important that we understand that it is the outcome that matters, effectiveness is what matters, and we have got to look at this."
"I see no mention of long-term TBI rehab provisions that came out of the Lejeune Act."
"I think it is important for this Committee, though, to maybe gently remind them they are not the first people to think of it."
"We need to make sure there are not onerous burdens put on land owners. But we also have to ask the question; do we wish to have biodiversity and protection of species and to what extent?"
"Not being included in this ESA working group puts up unnecessary partisanship where it doesn't need to be."
"This Committee has a long, storied history of bipartisanship. We have proven we can do it."
"90 percent of species are recovering at the rate specified by their Federal recovery plan."
"opening statement"
"The Florida Panther's recovery plan is 114 years long. It doesn't mean the ESA is a failure."