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.
five four picking pulling votes
Picking up four or five votes by pulling (arctic drilling) doesn't make up for the 25 or 30 votes you're going to lose,
bill chance consensus debating philosophy reach signed spend spent toward type unless work
My philosophy has always been that if you work toward some type of compromise, you've actually got a chance to get the bill signed into law, ... On a lot of issues, we've spent years debating them. Unless we can reach consensus ... we'll spend another 20 years debating them.
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.
bill private property protect protecting purpose species willing
The purpose of this bill is to protect my private property owners, ... and to make them willing participants in protecting species and their habitat.
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.
endangered failed goal produce recovery share
has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.
federal government land pay screaming takes wildlife
If the federal government comes and takes someone's land, we all pay for it, ... If we take land to make a wildlife refuge, we pay for it. No one's down here screaming that's (the government's) entitlement.
alaska state stay underlying
assures me the state of Alaska will stay with the 50-50 that is in the underlying bill.
possibly roll
What can we possibly have to roll back? ... It's not working.
broken deal trying
Obviously, we're approaching this differently than we have in the past, ... trying to deal with a broken system.
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.
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.
owners private property
Private property owners have to be part of the solution,