Duncan Hunter: “Thank the ranking member. And Mr. LoBiondo is now recognized.”

I first want to thank Chairman Shuster for giving me the opportunity to serve for nearly 6 years as the chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, and I would like to thank him for yielding me time. {time} 1830…

But the catch-22 is that if the Coast Guard did some of these things, they would have more people to do other things.

I want to express my disappointment that the DoD decided not to participate in today's hearing.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his service. If you don't know, Scott Taylor enlisted in the Navy SEALs in 1997, got out, and then went back to Iraq in 2005. In Ramadi, as a Navy SEAL sniper, he was injured. And here he is now. I…