[The bill] will place a new emphasis on recovery and eliminates dysfunctional critical habitat provisions, ... It's about a new era in protecting species and protecting habitat at the same time we protect property owners. |
A lot of guys were really upset. Looking at what we face as a country right now, with escalating energy prices, the shortage of natural gas, a lot of guys believe that this is our last best chance to increase American production of energy. |
assures me the state of Alaska will stay with the 50-50 that is in the underlying bill. |
Do these sound like the statistics of a successful law? Of course not, |
Everything we do when it comes to taking land for a public good or a public use, we pay them for it. But when it comes to the Endangered Species Act right now they get it for nothing, so they don't want to have to pay for it, |
Floridians cannot support your efforts if the Peterson-Abercrombie amendment remains a part of your bill. |
For the guys from states that do not want (drilling), this is the best deal they're ever going to get, ... I'm not seeing any better alternatives. |
has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species. |
I am willing to do whatever we can to put the focus on recovery and do what we can to recover these species as long as my property owners are protected, |
I think the bill ultimately will have ANWR in it, |
I think the bill ultimately will have ANWR in it. |
I'm told this is also an issue that has been tested in court and a settlement has been reached and it's not necessary to address the issue in the underlying bill, |
If the federal government comes and takes someone's land, we all pay for it, ... If we take land to make a wildlife refuge, we pay for it. No one's down here screaming that's (the government's) entitlement. |
If the federal government takes the land, |
In our bill we protect the small property owners, ... It was a compromise, a reasonable way to protect endangered species, to protect the habitat which they need to recover. |