The original goal of the Magnuson-Stevens Act was to protect domestic waters from foreign fishing.

Management measures like biomass-based catch limits are indeed working.

I represent a majority minority district. It is about 75 percent Latino and African American.

Addressing climate change is anything but radical, as marine and coastal fisheries support over $20 billion in economic activity, and about 130,000 jobs in California each year.

As a Representative for California's 44th Congressional District, I am proud to say that my home state is leading the way to address climate change.

I believe climate change is a national security issue.

I was very disturbed to hear that the President wanted to open up the coastlines again to drilling.

I think today we have heard, I would say, an assault on our Federal lands.

I was quite disappointed to see that this budget cuts the LWCF by more than 80 percent.

Urban parks are not only safe and beautiful, but they also serve as green engines to help address nearly every critical urban need.

I hope that your agency will certainly give serious consideration to his application.

Do you think it is right that our veterans have to come back in body bags to be able to come back to this country for which they fought for?

I would like to ask the Chairman unanimous consent to enter a release from the USCIS announcing this temporary suspension into the record.

Trump's characterization of the U.S. immigration as a flood of low-skilled migrants draining public finances is flawed. New arrivals to the United States are increasingly better-educated and well-off.

I am grateful for the judiciary system; it is a checks and balance system that we have in this country that is meant to provide the oversight when you have a President who is doing whatever he wants to do, regardless of the law.

This second travel ban was just the same ban in different wrapping paper. It had the same discriminatory intent, and we can't--we don't even know what this President's financial ties are to countries that are not on the list because he…

The President has announced that he is going to move for this merit-based immigration system, breaking from decades of long practice of giving families--preference to families of U.S.-based citizens.

I would like to ask the Chairman unanimous consent to enter a release from the USCIS announcing this temporary suspension into the record.

USCIS Will Temporarily Suspend Premium Processing for All H-1B Petitions

I urge you to invest in our Nation's freight transportation network, particularly on the multimodular transportation and on programs that provide comprehension solutions to combat homelessness.

I represent California's 44th Congressional District. It includes areas like San Pedro, Compton, and Watts, and it, most notably, has the Port of Los Angeles in the district.

If that is done, do you think that is going to increase and shift more focus onto the seas and our maritime ports of entry?