Richard Pombo
Richard Pombo
Richard William Pombois a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented California's 11th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. Pombo lost a reelection bid to Democratic challenger Jerry McNerney on November 7, 2006...
cannot continue oppose resource
You cannot continue to oppose any new (energy) resource development in this country.
authority deep including power prevent resource states ultimate waters
the states should have ultimate authority over resource production, including the power to prevent it, in the deep waters off their coasts.
amendment cannot efforts remains support
Floridians cannot support your efforts if the Peterson-Abercrombie amendment remains a part of your bill.
act endangered good land pay public species taking
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,
anyone defend gotten paying private property public taking wrong
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.
owners private property
Private property owners have to be part of the solution,
alaska state stay underlying
assures me the state of Alaska will stay with the 50-50 that is in the underlying bill.
course sound statistics successful
Do these sound like the statistics of a successful law? Of course not,
act failure focus private property protect recovering recovery respond step
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.
compromise control current greater law protects reach states
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.
broken deal trying
Obviously, we're approaching this differently than we have in the past, ... trying to deal with a broken system.
What we are doing now is not working,
possibly roll
What can we possibly have to roll back? ... It's not working.
act current endangered knew needed species
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.