Sam Farr: “Thank you for yielding. Madam Chair, this bill has in its title ``America That Works.'' It is not going to work with…”

“Thank you for yielding. Madam Chair, this bill has in its title ``America That Works.'' It is not going to work with this provision in it, and that is why the bill fails. I think year after year of failing and failing is a policy of upward failure. It makes no sense not to allow all the Federal agencies to coordinate. We do that in the military. This would be like restricting the ability of the military to coordinate between services. So we do it with shipping lanes, we do it with wildlife, we do it with habitat protection. It is just smart. The spatial planning in the National Ocean Policy, for the first time, saves a lot of money because all these Federal agencies now sit down and talk about how they can carry out the policies that they are responsible for. You wipe all that. No dialogue, no communication, no ability to reach agreements in a way by this crazy restrictive language. Without this amendment, this bill proves that America can't work. I urge adoption of the amendment.”