Jack Fields: “Mr. Chairman, some of the examples we have heard from the other side of the aisle, Milken, Keating, Leeson, they all…”

I just want to take the time to thank him and also the gentleman from California for this fine work. This is a very sensitive area, very complex area, but it is a very important area for the American public, and I just wanted to…

I personally do not think it is going to work, and I think in countries like Zimbabwe and Tanzania, it, first of all, is a slap in the face of these countries that they were not consulted.

Did you ever envision that this law would be used to destroy the economic value of millions of items legally acquired by Americans over the years?

It takes the money out of the local community, which the elephant is no longer protected by the community, but becomes a meat source, and it has a commodity, the ivory.