Duncan Hunter

It is better to kidnap one person like Bergdahl than capturing or kidnapping hundreds of useless people.

the thought that people like this would be released was just inconceivable to the people that I spoke with yesterday.

I just want to say thanks for coming out. Thanks for coming out and kind of making--one of the reasons we do this is to simply raise the observation and raise awareness that you are out there, and that there is a blue economy, and there is…

It is not just the Coast Guard that could benefit, or the Navy that could benefit, or NOAA, or the weather folks. It is everybody, because everybody touches the ocean in some way, and maritime touches everybody.

Thanks, Commander. We actually figured out what the Navy and Coast Guard's plan was for icebreaking. It is to wait until it melts, and then we won't need one any more.

But what we can do is make sure that they are not recreating what you are already doing inside the Government bureaucracy for 10 times as much as you are doing it for.

I think you should keep your mistrust. I think that George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, and Ben Franklin, they didn't trust the Federal Government either.

I believe that Federal regulation is a noose around the neck of the American economy.

I think it is important for us to show a strong presence post-2014 lest we repeat the mistakes that we repeated in Iraq.

To the extent that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has jurisdiction over this issue, I look forward to working with the gentlelady from California to include her proposal to include cybersecurity as an element in facility…

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining.

One thing that this bill does is not only does it inventory this property--or it would--it also works to reduce the Coast Guard's excess property in general. It requires the Coast Guard to conduct an inventory of all of its real property…

I believe missile defense continues to be critically important as adversaries like Iran and North Korea develop better and better missile technology.

To the extent that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has jurisdiction over this property, I will work with the gentleman from Washington to convey the property to the city.

To the extent that these issues are within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, I look forward to working with the gentleman from Alaska with respect to resolving the disposition of the assets associated…

I would like to thank the ranking member, Mr. Garamendi from California. He was great to work with on this. We had some disagreements, but we agree on the majority of it. I would like to thank you for your support. It was great working…

North Korea's unpredictability requires our presence. We are and have been for some time the guarantor of South Korea's security.

I think we don't want to imagine how much worse that would be if they thought we were not there to stop them from further aggression against South Korea.

This is the third year in a row the President has forced the Coast Guard to sacrifice mission success to pay for his questionable spending in other agencies.

The President has sent Congress yet another budget proposing to cut funding for the Coast Guard, this time by more than $360 million.

It is hard for me to imagine that there aren't other places in the Coast Guard where you could find efficiencies and savings, maybe in the back end, as opposed to the tip of the spear.

I am just wondering what do you see with JIEDDO going forward?

the Army is going to knock me for this, but probably in the next 15, 20 years, the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force are going to be out there front and center.

the way ahead here is, first of all, I think that the role of an ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] is important.

But in the end, these things will need to be solved through arbitration, through legal means, through international forums, and not through coercion.