Jack Fields

The cases that I have cited today, whether it was an abandoned eagle's nest, the people who have been hurt were not developers. They were just average property owners. The farmers and ranchers in the hill country of Texas who have been…

What I am saying is if I as a property owner impact your property, you have a civil cause of action against me for damages. What we are talking about in this particular piece of legislation, if the Federal Government comes in through a…

If I, as an adjoining property owner, do something to diminish your right as an adjoining property owner, I have a civil cause of action. But what we are talking about here is the homeowner, if there is a taking of that homeowner because…

I do not see two different types of property rights in this particular piece of legislation. If you are talking about a developer, a developer has a right to assert their property right just as a residential homeowner. The residential…

On that very point, that is what is happening in my congressional district with the red-cockaded woodpecker. The Government has come in and identified colonies of nests and begun to move those to Federal forestry land off of private…

If you are for those people making wetlands and endangered species decisions in your district, basically the Corps of Engineers and Fish and Wildlife involved in every property transaction and building permit, you should vote for this…

The eagles must be different in the Northwest than they are in Texas, because I have had two specific examples with abandoned nests. We are not even sure that the nests that were abandoned were eagles' nests. In the one example I used last…

The Pell Grant program is a $6.3 billion program, but last year it suffered a $250 million shortfall. The Department of Energy estimates, and this is a very conservative estimate, that Pell Grants to prisoners constitute at least a $73…