"If the trust fund can cover 100 percent, we make it mandatory spending, then, we are going to have these stupid issues with shutdowns and sequestration."
"The expansion of the CEs, which I have advocated for, for a number of years, has worked quite well in Texas and Washington and elsewhere."
"Isn't that correct?"
"the most notable failure in the Northwest, of course, is the Columbia River Crossing."
"H.R. 4256 is so poorly drafted that it is hard for me to say exactly what it does."
"Unfortunately, none of the bills embraces these common-sense strategies."
"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."
"Today we would be paying off the last of our national debt."