Peter DeFazio actually said...

"Clearly, ESA as written and implemented can be improved upon, and I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on the bills before us today."

"They sunset the protections of the ESA, as if the extinction crisis were over, as if no more imperiled species needed further protection, as if we have learned nothing from the passenger pigeon."

"Now that the listing has been finalized, the bill seeks to unravel those protections, gambling the bird's fate on a recently adopted range-wide plan that would be unenforceable, unproven, and unable t..."

"The bill would do virtually nothing to help farmers in this severe drought, while driving endangered species in the Bay Delta estuary closer to extinction."