Endangered Species Act Endangered

An effort is afoot in Southern California to lend congressional support to the Bush administration's efforts to roll back the Endangered Species Act. Oddly enough, it's being supported by House Democrats. Here's a blurb from www.stopextinction.org:
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“Environmentalists plan to picket outside a congressional hearing in Fontana today to protest what they say is a legislative attempt to eviscerate key portions of the Endangered Species Act,” reported the Riverside Press-Enterprise, 9/9.  The House Resources Committee is holding a hearing on the impact of the Endangered Species Act on southern California communities, and to promote two pending Congressional bills that would weaken the protections for endangered species.  Terry Wold of the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club said the forum was “unbalanced” and called the two bills recently passed by the House Resources Committee “an ‘end run’ that would undermine protections for the places that imperiled plants and animals need to survive.”