I voted against this mess, and I voted against this mess because I believed it would happen.

Overall, this whole ISR thing is confused. There have been changes... and it frankly doesn't make much sense.

We really need to understand that.

I don't understand why you are developing a new base when, in fact, you have adequate facilities at an existing base.

We are unwilling to fund the Government that we really need.

But the proposal puts that entire industry on a downhill slope to the point where it won't exist.

I don't think it works. I've been at this for 40 years, and I don't think it works.

It is Congress that enacted the sequester and it is Congress that over the last several years has repeatedly diminished the Federal spending and raised much revenue.

I am sure that he and I and the members of this committee will do whatever we can to try to restore as much money as possible to the Coast Guard overall account.

Mr. Blumenauer, I would be honored to participate in this conversation. And, Mr. Speaker, it's always a great pleasure and, in fact, important that those of us 435 that have been elected to represent the American citizens rise on the floor…

I suspect that, Mr. Speaker, all of us would want to see more jobs in America. The great American manufacturing sector over the last 20 years has lost about 9 million jobs. Twenty-five years ago, no one throughout this world would doubt…

I'm opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Garamendi moves to recommit the bill H.R. 678 to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to…