Steve Pearce: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We again have the issue of depredation. There is no fund that pays ranchers when their…”

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We again have the issue of depredation. There is no fund that pays ranchers when their livestock is killed. So we have the livestock, which in these days of ranching, ranching is a very hard business, and we have the livestock which is killed by these predators that continue to eliminate more and more livestock each year, with no payments being made from Fish and Wildlife Service. I would simply point out, and I would thank the gentleman from Kansas for yielding, that this program is restricted to only two very rural parts of America. It is wrong; it is wrongheaded. I would thank the gentleman from Washington for his suggestion to withdraw the amendment but would instead ask for a vote on the amendment.”