Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, H.R. 1726 is a noncontroversial bill to reorganize the Coast Guard's permanent authorities under title 14 of the U.S. Code in order to improve the clarity and the coherence of the title. I would like to thank my assistant, and counsel, Dave Jansen, and John Rayfield, on the other side, for recognizing that there is confusion, and so this legislation, while it makes no substantive changes to the Coast Guard's existing authorities and policies under title 14, does save for some conforming changes to create a new chapter for all of the Coast Guard national advisory councils and execute a handful of other minor transfers. It just simply ends a lot of confusion as people try to figure out where it is in the code that they must look. Accordingly, I am comfortable with supporting this legislation, although I do note that it will impose some additional administrative costs on the Coast Guard as they set about implementing it. I want to commend the chairman, Mr. Hunter, for the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, for his initiative and for his staff's initiative, in taking on this important little bit of housekeeping that is going to make all of our lives easier. I will certainly urge all of the Members to support it. I also appreciate Chairman Hunter's work with me in an effort to try to solve another problem. This is only one piece of our effort to try to improve the maritime industry.…”