Blake Farenthold: “The Endangered Species Act has morphed into Endangering the Human Species Act.”

This project has been continuously delayed by bureaucracy and what I believe to be the prior Administration's hostility to oil and gas.

I was completely exonerated by OCE and the settlement agreement has been paid. I'm doing my best and I'm going to hand a check over this week to probably Speaker Ryan or somebody and say, look, here is the amount of my settlement. Give it…

I think way too many decisions here in Washington are made on anecdotal information and not scientific information.

It is bad enough just seeing your trees there for months. But when it is your personal effects and your scrapbooks, I mean, it is heartbreaking.