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On the recordJune 3, 2015
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am referring the remarks to the Madam Chair. Look, deleting this ability for the National Ocean Policy--by the way, we haven't appropriated money. No money is being spent on it. But we are smart about getting 70 or 80 Federal agencies together to have one stop to figure out how we can get all these permits. That is why the fishermen support it. I live in a coastal community. The author of this does not. We make our living off the ocean. And, by God, we want all the regulatory agencies to be in sync. And one of the policies here is, let's have a healthy ocean. What is wrong with that?
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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