In our bill, we protect the small property owners. Yes we do. You know what? We should. If the federal government steps in and takes someone's land for a highway, we pay for it. And I don't see people running down here saying `it's an entitlement', |
It's been a pleasure watching Matador grow. |
My philosophy has always been that if you work toward some type of compromise, you've actually got a chance to get the bill signed into law, ... On a lot of issues, we've spent years debating them. Unless we can reach consensus ... we'll spend another 20 years debating them. |
Obviously, we're approaching this differently than we have in the past, ... trying to deal with a broken system. |
Picking up four or five votes by pulling (arctic drilling) doesn't make up for the 25 or 30 votes you're going to lose, |
Private property owners have to be part of the solution, |
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. |
shoot, shovel and shut up. |
The act has been a failure at recovering species, ... We have to respond to that and step in and reauthorize the bill, put the focus on recovery and protect private property owners. |
The Endangered Species Act is in desperate need of an update, ... It has hurt species recovery by leading to the trend we all know as 'shoot, shovel and shut up.' And it has hurt family farmers and ranchers by taking their property away. |
The purpose of this bill is to protect my private property owners, ... and to make them willing participants in protecting species and their habitat. |
the states should have ultimate authority over resource production, including the power to prevent it, in the deep waters off their coasts. |
There's something wrong with that, and I don't know how anyone can defend taking someone's private property for a public use, for the public good, and not paying them for it just because you've gotten away with it for 32 years. |
Thirty years of critical habitat have done very little if anything to help species, ... The current system does not work. |
This is a completely different approach, |