This is an aggressive deficit-cutting measure that raises revenue for Uncle Sam so Uncle Sam doesn't take it from the taxpayers themselves. We will generate these new revenues by increasing domestic energy supplies at a time when American consumers need them most. |
This legislation will lead to increased and more diverse U.S. energy supplies to prevent disruptions and to bring future price relief, |
This month Mother Nature proved just how vulnerable America is to supply disruptions, ... We must do more to increase and to diversify domestic supplies. |
tired and inane rhetoric. |
We knew the Endangered Species Act had problems, ... We knew there were things that needed to get fixed, that weren't working in current law. |
What can we possibly have to roll back? ... It's not working. |
What we are doing now is not working, |
What we were able to do was reach a compromise where states would have much greater control over their coastlines than what they do under current law and current regulation, ... It protects those states who do want to protect their coastline and don't want to have more coastal development. |
You cannot continue to oppose any new (energy) resource development in this country. |
You will see a shift in the priorities in the Farm Bill. |
You're not excusing them from following the law, you're just trying to make the law work so that they can take care of the levee systems or the dams or whatever it is, |
You've got to pay when you take away somebody's private property. That is what we have to do. The only way this is going to work is if we bring in property owners to be part of the solution and to be part of recovering those species. |