In the area of fishery management, last year the subcommittee provided funding for an independent stock assessment for reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico.

I continue to have significant reservations about the potential abuses and harassment of law-abiding gun owners and purchasers.

Have you advised the President on using executive actions to close the Guantanamo prison and transfer terrorist detainees to American soil, despite the law?

The subcommittee now stands in recess until Thursday, March 3, at 10:30 a.m., when we will take the testimony of Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.

Counterterrorism is a top priority for this subcommittee, and the work TEDAC conducts is critical given that I.E.D.'s are still prevalent and dangerous tools used by terrorists at home and abroad.

Do you believe that municipalities in this country, cities, that refuse to cooperate with the Federal immigration laws should be allowed to receive Federal law enforcement grant funding of any kind?

Do you personally believe--you are the chief law enforcement officer of the country--that noncitizens should be allowed to vote in U.S. elections, although they are not American citizens?

I expressed to you at our hearing in January my apprehension about the President's Clemency Initiative.

I find it hard to believe that the President could spotlight his commitment to reducing gun violence in America when his administration is granting clemency petitions for criminals convicted of gun crimes.

I do not believe that your department is addressing this, or the administration.

Since President Obama took office, Congress has consistently, on a bipartisan basis, prohibited the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay through multiple pieces of legislation.

That is the law right now, isn't it?