If they go under, it is important to note there will be nobody to pay back this loan because the loan payments are based upon their landings.

This bipartisan REFI legislation...makes perfect sense to refinance this decades old loan at today's low interest rates.

I want to start by thanking you for the historic designation of our newest national monument in my district on the Mendocino County coast.

the science is not working. Don't you understand that?

Just this morning I talked to a representative of Central Valley farmers.

Can't you see the--your Fish and Wildlife Service's own numbers on delta smelt population?

Right. Has National Marine Fisheries documented the number as matched, that that 3 percent is their actual administrative cost?

So that is another burden.

I must say that the number of State exchanges that have problems... really does show that technology is overrated.

Please note for the record that his State, and now a great many other States, are directly responsible for that because they have failed to allow poor and middle class and disabled people to get health through expansion of the Medicaid…

I look forward to hearing your testimony.

it is our hope that the committee will consider this legislation in the very near future and send it to the Floor.

I very much appreciate your holding a hearing today on these three measures.

we have to do something about this.

My testimony will center on human trafficking as it relates to fishing vessels and illegal fishing worldwide.

we have taken the position that trade and environment need to be mutually supportive; that our trade agreements need to have strong environmental commitments

the only way forward is, in fact, a legislative fix?

I can't find a way to justify those cuts, and would hope that Congress will see fit to rearrange the budget