Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Pallone, Chairwoman Schakowsky, Representative McNerney, Ranking Member Rodgers, Ranking Member Bilirakis, and Representative Guthrie for bringing forward these key bills on technology. Emerging technologies…

Will you please join me in my districts to visit these communities that really point to the spherical sea level rise and work with the county, the constituents, and me to help devise a plan to improve the situation there through their BRIC…

I don`t have my glasses. I am at a disadvantage, because I didn`t bring my glasses.

I would rather because I like the numbers being where they are. I don`t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn`t our fault.

The president wouldn`t do that. The president`s ego couldn`t handle a problem emerging on his watch.

No I never admitted defeat. We have a lot of things happening right now where it is concede I have not conceded.

Don`t we have an island that we own? What about Guantanamo? We import goods, we are not going to import a virus.

It`s also more deadly than your, you know, even your strenuous flus. This is more deadly, this is five per -- you know, this is five percent versus one percent and less than one percent. You know, this is deadly stuff.

The only reason he addressed this with the public was when the NBA season went out and the stock market went down.

I have been working on coastal resilience funding since I first got to Congress.

Thank you for putting together this omnibus of multiple, amazing bills.

I just want to thank you for your clear concern for marine mammals and for wanting to come up with solutions that will really be effective because if we don't have the heart to save the manatees, then we have sort of lost the love that…

And, Chairman, thank you for including Representative Brownley's bill to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish climate impact management plans to conserve marine mammal species.

There is a place called the Indian River Lagoon as well as the Saint Johns River, estuaries and rivers on the East Coast of Florida, right near our district, and we have seen huge development over the years, as well as an increase in…

There is a bipartisan concern about the unusual mortality event among manatees in Florida.

Well, we hope you will consider raising it to endangered again.

It is part of the slate of bills that would make sure that we have more regional ocean partnerships.

Coastal tourism in Florida is a huge economic source of prosperity for the state of Florida.