I too, urge a ``yes'' vote on this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman) that the House suspend the rules and…
Jared Huffman
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Jared William Huffman is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Huffman has focused on issues such as environmental protection, healthcare, and education during his tenure in Congress. He has been an advocate for science-based policy and has emphasized the importance of government support for scientific research and public safety initiatives.
I thank the gentlewoman from New Mexico for mentioning Professor Knox. He was an outstanding witness in our hearings on this subject. The truth is, the product of 3 years of work that is before us today was a really good exercise in…
I urge a ``yes'' vote on this legislation and yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…
I too, urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman) that the House suspend…
I urge a ``yes'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 7693…
I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman) that the House suspend the rules and…
I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this important legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman) that the House…
I have no further requests for time and I am prepared to close, so I reserve the balance of my time.
I thank Representative Dingell for the time and for her great work on this landmark bipartisan legislation, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, or RAWA, as we call it. This is a bright spot amidst so many problems facing our Nation. As…
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It is wonderful to see my old friend and former colleague, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico.
We need to overcome politics and confront this crisis for the sake of preserving a livable planet for these guys.
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, and I thank my colleagues for their kind remarks about our friend and my predecessor, former Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey. Lynn was a one-of-a-kind…
Isn't this something that we should be sounding the alarm about, looking into taking action?
This is an important hearing, and I think we have shed some light on a subject that absolutely deserves and requires it.
I think if we only asked Federal agencies to do easy things, we would have a lot less Federal agencies with much smaller budgets.
There is no requirement for traceability for the remaining 60 percent of the species entering our markets, which includes most of the seafood originating in Russia--like pollock.
Banning those imports is intended to ensure that American consumers are not funding Putin's war machine.
Unless that fish is one of the 13 species that happened to be covered by SIMP--and we know most of them are not--the Russian origins of this seafood is untraceable, and the ban is impossible to enforce.
Last month, President Biden issued an Executive Order banning the import of Russian seafood, one of many sanctions we have put in place in response to the unprovoked, unjustified aggression, war crimes, and atrocities of Vladimir Putin in…





