02/13/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Thank you for your leadership on this issue, this world challenge."
"The Endangered Species Act is not broken. Since this bipartisan law was enacted in 1973 under President Nixon, it has been 99 percent successful in recovering listed species."
"It is our responsibility not to politicize the science or the biology needed to recover a particular species, but to heed the warning signs given to us by science."
"One of the things that we have really been encouraging are the candidate conservation agreements with assurances."