Political Quotes

“I am pleased to introduce this amendment with two of my colleagues, Representative Bill Flores of Texas and Representative John Fleming of Louisiana. Mr. Chairman, I represent coastal Alabama, and I have spent my entire life living on the Gulf Coast. Like many of my friends and neighbors, my family has always enjoyed fishing, swimming, boating, and spending time in the Gulf of Mexico. It is safe to say that living on the Gulf becomes a way of life. For some people, the Gulf also provides for economic well-being, whether through the commercial seafood industry, tourism, or something else. No one is a better steward of the shores and our waters than those of us who live and work in the Gulf. Since the water provides our way of life and our economic well-being, we are going to do everything we can to protect and preserve our resources. We don't need the Federal Government to tell us what to do. That is why I am so concerned by the National Ocean Policy, which was created under President Obama's Executive Order No. 13547 in 2010. The policy requires that various bureaucracies work together to ``zone the ocean'' and the sources thereof, largely affecting the ways in which we utilize our ocean resources. The National Ocean Policy is executive overreach at its very worst.…”