On the recordJanuary 28, 2020
I thank Mr. Smith, and I appreciate him for sharing some really personal impacts of a law that--can anyone think of another law that has been in place for 47 years without any kind of improvements or changes? It doesn't happen very often. When we see impacts like that, that impact people's lives--they truly do--not only species that we are trying to protect but the people who are trying to live in concert with those species, it is something that really speaks, I think, to a lot of us. So I thank the gentleman very much for his bill. The EMPOWER Act, I think, will give a lot of much-needed change and improvement to this process so that States and local communities can have a say. We should have more positive results from the ESA and move forward from that abysmal 3 percent success rate that we should not be proud of. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), my good friend.
