To Mr. Pettinger, on the terms of the loan and the other costs, let us just go over a couple of the other costs.

we are doing all of these amendments and everything to make this fishery better and more efficient.

Unless something is done now, this cycle of build, damage, and rebuild will continue.

Are you engaged in that kind of really foresighted advice to--as part of mitigation that apparently the whole vision of what you did before is no longer viable, in light of these unprecedented storms and other climate events that we are…

It is--but it is a very rare example of the Congress being able to fund before the fact.

The problem is that these were unprecedented disasters.

This is no longer we are--``This is what is going to happen.'' It is happening.

Today our Nation is at a critical junction. In recent years we have seen strong storms with greater frequency.

And we are a little bit slow on the electronic monitor; is that correct?

we seem to be all on the same page there and wanting to have the best, most comprehensive measures.

If you--if climate change--and I commend you for factoring climate change into your work; I am very interested in how you do that.

How can the Government put a price on that? My son played with that. Those are memories. How can you put a price on that?

If for $500 million invested you can get $1.6 billion in return, if you were a private investor, you couldn't resist that.

This is a very important and, I think, timely hearing.

we have to find a way to begin to defray that capital backlog

the Obama administration in this budget is forfeiting billions of dollars in new revenue by continuing to stifle energy production on our Federal lands.

I would agree with the end of the Chairman's remarks about there are many challenges before us where we should be able to put aside differences and work on a bipartisan basis.

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