The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted 220-209 in favor of a measure that aims to take away the endangered species status that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has given to the northern long-eared bat, with the move coming after the Democratic-run Senate backed the measure in a 51-49 vote in May. The House also voted 221-206 for a measure that would roll back an endangered status for a southern population of the lesser prairie chicken, a type of grouse, following Senate approval for the measure in May. But the White House pledged in May that President Joe Biden would veto the measures if Congress passed them.
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