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Issues
Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) sponsored an amendment to H.R. 8070, the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, which would exempt defense-related activities from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This amendment would carve out a massive loophole in the ESA, undermine science, and ignore the longstanding partnership among the Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and state wildlife agencies to conserve species and resources on DOD designated military lands. Those military lands support the preservation of ecologically important native habitats for fish, wildlife, and plant species, including over 400 threatened and endangered species. On June 12, the House rejected the Biggs amendment by a vote of 196-231 (House roll call vote 255). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE.
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