So my question is, why is it so flat-funded? Why haven't you supported the Organic Data Initiative?
I think we have to realize that it doesn't just apply to Department of Defense (DoD). It applies to every federal agency.
As Members of Congress, we must enact immigration policies that are tough, fair and practical.
I bring to you today a bill that is reauthorizing what is already in the law, a bill that was created by the Chairman in the Senate, Inouye,...
Thank you for your leadership in addressing marine debris.
According to the National Academy of the Sciences, we dump more than 14 billion pounds of trash into the ocean every year.
The only way to protect these industries and ocean-users and their contributions to the national economy is to reduce the amount of marine d...
Those are very expensive; they are thousands and thousands of dollars.
What we do is we monitor it now. We monitor it by--we can tag it with satellite tags if it is big enough.
Our beaches and oceans have turned into landfills.
Thank you Chairman Fleming and Ranking Member Sablan for holding a hearing on the Marine Debris Act Reauthorization Amendments of 2011 (H.R....