"We can maintain sustainability while also increasing access to our waters for all."
"Time and again, this Committee has heard from many commercial and recreational fishermen and the businesses that depend on them about the need for more transparent science and flexibility for regional..."
"Our public lands and waters should be open to the public."
"All fishermen deserve the right to fish, and that is what this bill helps give them."
"Congress can and should do something about this."
"Again, being an advocate, rather than an adversary, is a big change."
"How do these kinds of bills that would remove bureaucratic obstacles and streamline America's water resource developments fit into the Department's goals?"
"The subcommittee that I chair, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans, has an active infrastructure agenda."
"I am not a fan of the New START [Strategic Arms Reduction] Treaty. For one thing, it is a relic of the Cold War."
"The last administration simply ignored a local alternative and had what was a called a 'charade' of a late-noticed town meeting far away from the working docks of fishing communities."
"These national monuments and the proposed expansion of a marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico completely undermine the multiple-use history of our Federal and territorial lands and waters."