Failure to comply with a congressional subpoena may result in serious consequences for you.

I want to thank, certainly, Dr. Wenstrup, for bringing forward this bill, and also the ranking member here for good bipartisan work. 1978 was a good year. I was playing soccer at the AYSO as a young, 11-year-old kid. It was also a good…

I rise today to once again address the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to be the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. I am extraordinarily pleased that the President has nominated such an outstanding individual to fill the…

Was it ever received by those groups with whom you had discussions?

ATA strongly supports the call Chairman Bishop and Congresswoman Amata Radewagen have made in their letter to the President.

The text of the Antiquities Act is clear: Congress explicitly authorized the President to designate 'objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be…

Let me ask unanimous consent to put into the record the announcement of the lawsuit done by the Pacific Legal Foundation over exactly your point on lands and water.

These closures around remote, uninhabited U.S. islands in the Pacific include traditional and productive U.S. fishing areas.

The prohibition of fishing in the monuments be rescinded so that these waters remain open to U.S. fisheries.

the U.S. purse seine fleet is in fierce competition with fleets from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan.

I should probably go first so I don't get worked up before I ask my questions.

I lied. I do have another UC to submit to the record.

There should be places that are off limits to commercial fishing, just as there are places that are off limits to hunting, drilling, mining, driving, smoking, nude sunbathing and other activities that may have negative consequences for…

The fishing prohibitions in these unilateral monument declarations are not based on established, accepted science.

Bluntly said, limiting fishing via marine monuments makes no sense whatsoever. It is actually harmful, and it is detrimental to maintaining sustainable fisheries.

So, Mr. Hallman, if I could ask you, in your testimony, you seem almost as confused as I am as to why mid-water and surface fishing gear is prohibited without the discussion of what that alternative could mean in this particular area.

for the U.S. Government to do so is a terrible example and precedent for other countries to follow.

Thank you and the committee members for your efforts to address the problems associated with the use of the Antiquities Act to designate protected areas in marine waters.