Ladies and gentlemen, the oil spill isn't the only mess in town. The mess was first started by the past administration, which takes great glee in cutting taxes for the very rich in this country and then leaving behind a huge deficit…

I am a big fan of the Drug Courts. It has nothing to do with NOAA, but it is part of the Justice Department.

Congressman Farr's Truth in Trials Act would actually remedy that injustice, allowing defendants in federal court to tell the truth about state law allowing them to dispense or use marijuana.

And, unfortunately, this President's budget calls for a huge increase in the observing systems in space at the expense of cutting programs in the ocean side, in the wet side.

But those are the communities that are really dependent on what we call a coastal economy and it can be everything from tourism to fishing to transportation and so on.

I can attest that this program works and is money well spent. I urge its adoption.

I rise in support of this legislation, and I think it is interesting that people are talking about health care because, if you don't have a healthy planet and healthy ocean, all of this discussion about how you care for human beings on the…

We sent our troops to war in Afghanistan, but after more than 8 years of war, we are only now actively trying to support peace. For years, I have worked to develop a Civilian Response Corps that can bring the whole of government approach…

I live in Carmel, California, and when the phone rang and I heard that Jack Murtha had died, I couldn't believe it. I broke into tears. I just couldn't believe it. It was like when I heard my father had died. And what I did at that moment…

I represent the coast and what the federal government did was a coastal zone management plan.

We need to really make food nutrition in our schools a high priority in our healthcare bill.

We do not means test for getting on a school bus. We do not means test for getting a library book.