Duncan Hunter: “So you load ballast water in a port. There are many, many more critters in a port environment than there is in…”

But don't spend $18 billion that way. Spend it where it has the most effect, which is the U.S. Coast Guard.

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 have ongoing concerns with the Coast Guard being an armed service within the Department of Homeland Security.

I would like to differentiate, too, between super high-tech stuff that is in its infancy stages and is nascent--and a floating surfboard that can sense if there is oil in the water that has been around for 5 years or longer.