John Garamendi: “That was a most interesting argument presented by our colleague. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman…”

I stand with maritime labor and our U.S. maritime industry in honoring the Jones Act, today and everyday as we fight to protect this transformative law.

I cannot, in good faith, approve a budget that rewards this behavior and fails to rein in an out-of-control President.

This pest and its associated disease pose a potentially catastrophic threat to these industries. If left unchecked, CDFA estimates that losses associated with PD/GWSS could eclipse $104 million annually.

Transparency is particularly important when it appears, as it does here, that the system’s ultimate capability will fall far short of the original promises.