On the recordJuly 17, 2003
I do not have a lot of love for the Endangered Species Act. I think that is well known within this Congress. I served on the Endangered Species Act reform committee. I think there are flaws. There are problems. But the difficulty is this is not the way to make changes within the system. We had a hearing in Billings, Montana, not long ago with the general from the Army Corps of Engineers at which time we said, when are you going to get off the dime and do your job? We have been waiting for 13 years for you to put the master plan back in place. You were supposed to have done it 13 years ago. You have not to this time. There are problems, and he told us at any given time there are lawsuits being filed by one State or another. At any given time 11 States care and there is a lawsuit ongoing. We cannot just ignore recreation upstate, we cannot just ignore the Endangered Species Act, and that is what this amendment does.
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