June 21, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 105 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages H5010-H5011]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DELISTING THE GRAY WOLF

  (Mr. STAUBER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. STAUBER. Madam Speaker, I rise today ahead of a public hearing 
set to be held in my congressional district by the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service on the proposed delisting of the gray wolf. The gray 
wolf has recovered.
  In fact, back in 2013, the Obama administration delisted the gray 
wolf for precisely the same reason we are today: because of science. 
Yet the gray wolf remains listed, and without a State-developed 
management plan in place, the population in northeastern Minnesota is 
growing at an uncontrollable rate.
  Within the Duluth city limits, which is the largest city in 
Minnesota's Eighth District, a Labrador retriever was recently attacked 
by wolves while its owner was just a few feet away. Attacks on cattle 
owned by farmers trying to make ends meet continue to be all too 
common.
  Madam Speaker, my State's Department of Natural Resources will 
effectively manage the species once the Federal Government moves itself 
out of the way.
  I am incredibly grateful to Interior Secretary Bernhardt and the Fish 
and Wildlife Service for choosing to hold this forum in the heart of 
gray wolf country. No one knows this issue better than those living in 
northeast Minnesota.

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