Jared Huffman

I now am proud to yield to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania, Mary Gay Scanlon.

I thank the gentlewoman very much. I now yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Jackson), a man who you might say has civil rights and social justice in his blood. I am sure he has some things to say about Trump's Project 2025.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Neguse) and agree with him. Many of our Republican colleagues have been trying to disown Project 2025. Certainly their nominee, Donald Trump, has been trying to do that in ways that are quite…

House Democrats are going to continue to shine a bright light on this document. The American people don't need to take our word for it when we talk about the extremism and cruelty and other impacts that Trump's Project 2025 would have…

I thank the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms. Plaskett) for her support. As I prepare to yield to the gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. Balint), I will just observe that my colleague's comments caused me to think about the fact that we…

I thank the gentlewoman very much, and I am glad she spoke to the so-called civil service reform element of Project 2025. They call it Schedule F. It is an innocuous-sounding thing, but again, like so many parts of Project 2025, when you…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois for speaking to the extremism and cruelty of Trump's Project 2025 so eloquently, and he is exactly right. Healthcare is in the crosshairs. One of the many ways in which Project 2025 would take us…

I urge the committee to take up this bill, and I yield back.

Yes, hyperbole is getting a bad name in this Subcommittee.

I think it shows us the right way forward on recreational fishing data, and also makes a very strong case that this bill is the wrong way forward.

Apparently, there is some other world somewhere where a vast conspiracy of hyper-woke Democrats is trying to ruin entire industries.

I have worked with Mr. Graves, in fact, to push NOAA to work with states in order to make that data set much better and much less uncertain.

I can answer it. How is that?

I ask that you consider this request urgently to allow the PFMC to make an informed decision on the potential for adoption of a rebuilding analysis for quillback rockfish.

H.R. 8704 blocks any updates to a 2008 Vessel Speed Rule until 2031, an arbitrary date.

I would not be supporting this common-sense approach NOAA has taken if I didn't think it was absolutely necessary to save the North Atlantic right whale.

The North Atlantic right whale could well be on the verge of functional extinction by that point.

You are breaking good news in incredible ways to communities all over this country because of the legislation we passed in the last Congress.

But honestly, to suggest that people are going to be put in harm's way because of this is simply inaccurate.

Yes, pretty far from a majority.

But too often, and in this case with two bills we are considering today, we are considering efforts that do the opposite of those objectives.

There is a lot of research that shows that slowing vessels down reduces the risk of a lethal strike to whales.

It seems like vessel speed rules would also be of great benefit to avoiding that individual liability.

The scientific evidence is clear that the revisions NOAA proposed to the 2008 Vessel Speed Rule will reduce the risk of vessel strikes for right whales.

I thank the gentleman and associate myself with his opening remarks about this wrongheaded proposed amendment. We debated this last year. It failed on this floor with 278 ``no'' votes to 193 ``yes'' votes. Twenty-five Republicans voted…