Doc Hastings actually said...

Endless litigation diverts valuable time and resources away from actual recovery efforts.

The original purpose of the ESA was to help recover endangered species and remove them from the list, not force taxpayers to reward an army ...

These lawsuits over the past four years have numbered more than 500 and have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

It is clearly appropriate to ask, in these tight fiscal times, whether taxpayers should subsidize groups that sue taxpayers in return.