wild caught is always better

What I say is there's a changing temperature pattern, water and onshore, so what do we do, how do we manage this for the economic losses that could be accumulating at a rapid pace if we're not careful.

I appreciate each one of you who did give recommendations and some ideas as we get ready to deal with some of these reauthorizations, especially the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which will be significant.

Is that a fair statement----

Thank you very much. We'll call this hearing to order, the first of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard in the 113th Congress.

Hearing held on March 19, 2013

We need technology to replace some of the things we're doing.

Yes, it's an important part and we should be looking at it, but it's something that's got to be done carefully.

Recently, I introduced legislation--S. 520--that is aimed at improving the safety of imported seafood, as well as promoting seafood traceability and preventing seafood fraud.

I want to acknowledge the new Ranking Member, Senator Rubio, and welcome his shared desire about developing an active schedule for the Subcommittee this year.

In one of your comments you said, 'left to your own devices.' Is there something we can do to help with other agencies or groups that you are working with?

you know, we love our veterans in Alaska. We have 77,000 veterans, one of the highest per capita in the Nation, and the VA does exceptional work.

The VA is committed to that single integrated electronic health electronic health record.

Do you keep or can you develop--now that we are ending the second war that we have been engaged in the last 10 years, are you able to say over the next period of time, assuming certain growth rates in the Army and the Air Force and other…

I did not come to the floor today to speak on the appropriations and CR, but I want to thank the chairwoman and ranking member for working in a bipartisan way. They are working on finding a solution and an ability to ensure that at the end…

I rise to take exception with some of my colleagues--and I hate to say this--on my side of the aisle. This subject is very frustrating. I am talking about a letter I reviewed from March 8. It is a letter from the Senate Energy Committee…

I would like to speak for 15 minutes on the topic of revenue sharing. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

the only agency in the Federal Government.

I want to hear you say again that at the end of 2013... we will be moving electronically the full records from DOD over to the VA.

I can tell you the increase in calls that I get in my office are not going down.

How are you going to get to that point, I mean, getting the images?

I thought I read something that DOD had some issues with their electronic transfer of the records.

It almost seems like they do all this work and then VA duplicates the work.

a few years ago IBM did a study of this at the direction of the Committee and determined that an evidence based time motion study was a good idea!

There should be clear review of additional reductions in the USF fund, especially in Alaska, based on this data.