Rob Bishop: “The ESA has veered away from this mission. All too often, the Act has been misused to control land, block a host of…”

Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being forced to actually deal with the local community on…

This ban is even more ridiculous after we just locked in mandatory spending of $900 million in perpetuity with the so-called Great American Outdoors Act.

I think many of those local fisheries on the coast would have some quibbling with your jurisdictional approach.