Big Cat Public Safety Act

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Mr. FULCHER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources from the State of Arkansas.

Mr. Speaker, here we are, yet again, discussing the most important issue of our day: cats. Not just any cats, but big cats.

My constituents have been hammering my office about this issue. Thankfully, my Democrat colleagues have been listening.

Of course, I jest.

I shouldn't be allowing this issue to be taking my time, and neither should you, Mr. Speaker.

My constituents are not talking about big cats. There are some misplaced priorities here. They are talking about skyrocketing food and energy prices and the never-ending deficit spending from this Democratic Congress. That is what is going on in my district.

Here is another big concern for Idaho and across the West: wildfire.

Mr. Speaker, 5.6 million acres--that is million with an M--have burned just this year to date. For those of you who don't live in the West or are not familiar with it, wildfire is what you get when you choke off access to your forests and regulate away the ability to properly manage your land. That is what the current leadership is doing. Yet, here we are talking about big cats.

Do I dare mention the southern border crisis?

There were 207,416 apprehensions last month alone with who knows how many got-aways, how much sex trafficking, or how much illegal narcotics. But don't worry. Congress is working on big cats.

Mr. Speaker, we have had a lot of things on the agenda here for the last few months, and there are many things that are burning in the minds of our constituents and the people whom we serve.

The people whom we serve deserve better. The people whom we serve are not talking about the things that we are. But yet here we are working through things that simply do not matter in the scheme of everything else going on right now.

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