Thune Blasts Long-Eared Bat ESA Listing at EPW Committee Hearing
“…Once again we have a federal agency that is throwing aside common sense and listening to special interest groups that based on their actions, do not have the best interests of the people of this country in mind.”
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) sharply criticized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) misguided decision to address the decline of the northern long-eared bat population by listing the bat as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Although not a member of the EPW Committee, Thune was invited to speak at today’s hearing by the committee chairman to point out that the northern long-eared bat’s declining population is due to disease, not loss of habitat, and to express his strong opposition to the FWS action.
We don’t need no dumb dingbat standing in the way of jobs and progress! Lots of animals are goin bye bye forever and if they can’t adapt we don’t need em!
the unwarranted listing of non-endangered species on this list has to be opposed because it’s being done specifically to increase the reach and power of government to interfere in more aspects of our lives. but your post was so much funnier anon. good for you.