Duncan Hunter

The Jones Act is what is called a cabotage law. It is a maritime law.

He went anti-American worker, anti-American made, and basically sold out to Wall Street and big corporate interests.

Before anyone heeds any new, unwarranted calls to extend the Jones Act, or to do away with it, we first need to understand better the reality of what is happening on the island.

Waiving the Jones Act now will not provide any additional relief to the hurricane victims on the island.

Unless you are asking for these things, they are not going to be wished upon you by the fairy God Congress.

I am confident we have support within the committee to maintain the Jones Act as it should be for America.

I think it is important that you--that the Coast Guard go to the President at this point and say, look, this is what we have incurred and we need to be included in this supplemental.

If President Trump does what he has been talking about in his campaign and after he has gotten elected, the last thing he should be doing is waiving the Jones Act.

There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry.

So what if you start adding the people and you don't get the money for the people?

I thank the gentleman from Texas. The gentlewoman brought up some points about a ship, which I didn't name. The Coast Guard hasn't built an icebreaker in almost 50 years. We only have one. There is only one Jones Act ship in the entire…

How much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 3 minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 646, line 3, after the first dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''. Page 647, line 12…

My amendment transfers $5 million from the Coast Guard's Operating Expenses account to its Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation account. The intent is to support sea trials for a Jones Act compliant icebreaker so the Coast Guard can…

I think it is almost easy to get too carried away and not be narrow enough in this case.

The blended retirement is probably more important, I would guess, to the other services.

there is no military requirement right now for an icebreaker.

But what I would like you to do right now is talk about it in terms of capability.

Do you think DoD is going to spring for that, then?

When will you have your requirements to give the subcommittee, what you have whittled it down to?

But if you want to make the icebreaker everything to everybody, it will be master of none, and it will be massively expensive.

So you are saying, here is all the stuff we wanted. Now we are going to cut it down to what we can afford?

there is no requirement in any operational plan anywhere in the world for an icebreaker.

California is going to legalize coke----

I don't understand why people don't see it that way.