Doc Hastings

This administration has made it a primary priority to settle with environmental groups, setting arbitrary deadlines for hundreds of ESA listing decisions.

The Fish and Wildlife Service listed it anyway, showing it was more fearful of environmental litigation, it appears, than giving the states a reasonable amount of time to let their plan work.

The bills before us today are not the only solutions to ESA issues. But these bills do demonstrate a continuing and growing awareness that ESA, as it currently exists, is not serving the people or species well.

The Endangered Species Act, or ESA, a law that has not been reauthorized for over 25 years, and which, I might add, has a recovery rate of less than 2 percent.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for bringing this issue to the floor. I think it adds very much to what we are trying to do with this underlying legislation, which is adding transparency to our efforts. I support the gentleman's…

I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Valadao), a very active Member on this issue.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Stewart), a former member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins) who is also experiencing the effects of this act.

I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Crawford), in whose district we had a field hearing on the impact of the Endangered Species Act.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce), a former member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar), another member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Benishek), another member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), a member of the working group.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Mrs. Lummis), another person who is the author of another section of this bill.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga), an author of another provision of this bill.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer), who is the author of one of the provisions within this bill.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon will be postponed. Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Bishop of Utah The Acting CHAIR. It…

I have no further requests for time and am prepared to close. So at this point, I will reserve the balance of my time.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank the gentleman for offering this amendment. I think, once again, the combination of what you and the gentleman from South Carolina said about the new technologies that will help us in the long run to develop our own energy resources…

I thank the gentleman for offering this amendment. I think it is a very good amendment. That part of the South Atlantic needs to be treated, I think, as one entity just because of the nature of how the State lines are. I think the…

I am very pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), another member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn), a subcommittee chairman on the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan), a member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the author of this legislation.