I think what we established today is it is not Descartes, 'I think; therefore I am,' it is, 'I procreate, therefore I am.'
Chairman Hunter, thank you for sponsoring this much-needed legislation, and we urge every member of the subcommittee to cosponsor H.R. 980.
Is the Coast Guard scared to back one of these? I mean what is...
It is about national security because when you have to start making ships and crewing those ships in times of war, when we go to war, you ha...
Do you want to murder those critters? Or do you want to just render them harmless?
So we allow ships to simply dump and mix their ballast water in the middle of the ocean, as opposed to setting guidelines for saying, 'Hey, ...
The U.S. Coast Guard has not taken a position on this yet.
Then why would a private company install something if they don't--why would they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for no reason?
So what is required by law? What does the law say?
Yes, sir, so that is a very----
U.S. law doesn't give you a number.