WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement: * * * Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a decision to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response: "The decision to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker i  more