Political Quotes

“as co-chair of the House Endangered Species Caucus, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 845. This bill, formerly called the Trust in Science Act, has gone under a rebrand since the best available science contradicts this politically motivated bill. I am here to remind the American people of some key facts underlying this bill. First, a small reminder, people are predators, too. In fact, we are the most successful apex predator of all time. This bill has the deeply unpopular Project 2025's name all over this. Look at page 534, part 3, section 16, where delisting the gray wolf is listed as the second highest priority for the Department of the Interior, just behind delisting the grizzly bear. Despite the Trump administration's incompetence and chaos, we have not forgotten about the direction coming from Project 2025 and the damage already done to our country. Second, this bill fails to recognize the status of gray wolves today, taking us back to an outdated rulemaking that didn't hold up in court. It is important to recognize State-by-State differences in wolf recovery but also in State-sanctioned predation. What does the best available recovery science say today? That is what we should be supporting. Gray wolf recovery goals are outdated, and they need to be updated. That is what we should be working on instead of this extinction effort. That is what this is: permission to once again reduce the wolf population in the lower 48 to zero.”