I find this argument very interesting that people like to cast both blame and aspersions that we are sort of different from all our States, that the Federal Government is one thing and the States are different. I have an amendment in a…

I rise as a Representative from a great fishing community, Monterey, California. Many of you may have heard about Monterey because it was the sardine port of the world, the largest sardine port in the world; and it certainly was written…

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I call you Chair because you were chair when I was on the committee, and I always respect your leadership in this field. As was stated, I am ranking member of the House Appropriations Agriculture…

What you tell your children, I don't think you teach them borrowing is bad as long as you have a plan to pay it back.

We have got to have those cops.

The lowest priority in the pecking order is the ocean.

I could tell my children that we can get by with one less F-22 if we can adequately regulate our markets.

These are American icons. And they represent our national heritage at sea.

I tell folks at home when they ask me all about this thing, I say it is like setting a speed limit and then not having any cops.

NOAA's cut to education has been 75 percent since 2010.

The ocean is an economic engine.

And yet, our survival as human beings on this planet depends on the health of the oceans.