Alan Lowenthal

economically the impacts of climate change will totally overwhelm the impacts of what else we are doing.

Thank you, Chair Huffman, for this important hearing.

the ability to live in those areas is coming down the road.

In your experience, and you both have stated in your testimony that you set targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases.

I represent the port area of Long Beach, Los Angeles. We are the largest complex. We have reduced our greenhouse gas effect by 80 percent and had the greatest economic growth because of that.

I think this is a model for the way the legislature should work, and I am proud to be part of this subcommittee and to state that.

I applaud the efforts to complete reports on the critical navigational improvements in both Seattle and in Norfolk.

I would appreciate just your full consideration of this request.

First, I, too, would like to thank my colleague, Representative Walters, for yielding and for holding this Special Order. I would also like to thank Representatives Correa, Royce, LaMalfa, and Green for joining us. Well, we are here once…

What do I go home and tell the people in Los Angeles? Where is that focus?

I would like to step back and look at this in terms--as the only Representative here on the panel from southern California.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 7, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $5,600,000)''. Page 8, line 15, after…

My amendment would increase STARBASE program funding by $5 million for fiscal year 2019, for a total of $35 million. STARBASE is currently active in 33 States and Puerto Rico at a total of 66 locations. It engages local fifth grade…

As I begin, I and many others have been outraged by the President's zero-tolerance policy, so it is so therapeutic for me to stand before you today and talk about a program that brings us together rather than divides us. Today I rise to…

In effect, this title is a bribe for states to take public lands out of the public's hands.

If Title I is the bribe, Title II is the shakedown.

This discussion draft makes a clear statement: our shared public lands and waters are only worth the oil and gas that we can wring out of them.

I think this bill is going to only further enable the Administration's desire to surrender our oceans and our coastlines and our public lands to the oil and gas industry, allowing for drilling no matter the environmental or economic cost.

The ideas behind this bill are flawed, and its enactment would be disastrous for everyone who uses or enjoys our public lands, our beaches, and our oceans.

On Federal lands----

The bill entirely waives the National Environmental Policy Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act for oil and gas activities.

While the concept is indeed novel, it's also reprehensible.

My home state of California could easily have to pay--and I am going to state this clearly--over a trillion dollars for a 10-year reprieve.

It is Groundhog Day again in the Committee as we consider yet another bill that prioritizes the oil and gas industry over everyday Americans.

There's little doubt that next month's elections are going to be a sham.