Even though he is trying to do a good thing here and improve the ESA, he is trying to improve something that IMHO is universally corrupt and has already sunsetted.
There is but one answer to the ESA, END IT! and end all of the corrupt enviro-jihadist and NGO lobbying that has built up around it. It and the mechansims that have built up around it was the great enabler for the unbelievable situation in:
Klamath Falls in 2001
... which is ongoing to this day.
Unfortunately that huge mechanism is precisely why even some good congressmen balk at it...too much money involved, too many "jobs" (that's a laugh) surrounding it and they don;t want the political baggage of double tapping the thing.
Well, that's exactly what is required and I pray someone up there will have the cajones to not only ropose it, but to push it through with a vengance.