Thank you to all of our witnesses for participating today.

By building the relationships with the conservation community and others and highlighting the need for support for shorebird, seabird, wading bird conservation, we had the ability to establish the South Carolina Coastal Bird Conservation…

I like to quote Mark Twain from time to time.

Senator McCain really spearheaded what is called the Rio Reimagined Initiative in Phoenix.

Speaking of sea level rise, as a Senator from the lowest lying State in the United States, our State is sinking, the seas around us are rising.

The issues along South Florida's coast with sea level rise, you cannot abandon, we cannot abandon the issue of restoration within the Everglades to deal strictly or solely with the climate concerns along the coast.

One of my goals in getting elected to the Senate, literally.

Also to have their ideas implemented into the project is really important.

We have a local chapter of Captains for Clean Water on this Committee. Senator Kelly and I are both retired Navy captains. We are very interested in clean water.

They are now one of our top 10 trading partners in the whole country.

One of the best ways to figure out where to go is to find out what works and do more of that.

The United States should not be an unwelcoming jurisdiction with respect to patent eligibility.

I'm looking forward to a robust hearing on the topic of artificial intelligence and intellectual property.

Exceptions have only expanded.

We celebrated their lives.

I was born to play third base for the Detroit Tigers. They had different ideas.

Every now and then we are fortunate to have a leader of another nation come to Washington, to Capitol Hill, and speak at a joint session of the Congress.

We want them to feel like they have been listened to.