Dan Webster

Are there constraints because of ongoing litigation on the amount of data you can release?

I also have sort of an issue there, too; you brought it up, and others did.

I think they are operating in bad faith.

It is plain and simple extortion.

So you are committed to going to the highest level with the Mexican authorities to try to get this squared away?

What are the goals of the Department in responding to this Committee's request?

During the June 12 hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit you asked me a question on the subject of truck weights.

There are a lot of predators that are moving in, and prey on white whale calves.

In closing, I want to thank Mr. Lipinski and the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee for their work on this bill, and I encourage all my House colleagues to join together to pass this commonsense piece of legislation.

I thank the ranking member for yielding me time. I rise today to support and ask my House colleagues to pass H.R. 539, the Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act. I would like to issue a special thanks to my friend Dan Lipinski, who introduced…

I appreciate the opportunity to speak at this hearing about the importance of need for federal funding to research gun violence.

I think an area of research that we really need more of is understanding those risks, how do we gather the best available data and study different responses to those risks.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Clerk read as follows: Amendment offered by Mr. Webster of Florida: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``NIST Small…

I have an amendment at the desk as the designee of the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Frankel). The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: TITLE…

I will say this. This is so duplicative and ridiculous. It is typical government regulation. Here you have an inland waterway, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The seagrass removal has been already mitigated. That requires maintenance…

I was unable to travel back to Washington due to illness. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 184, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 185, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 186, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 187. ____________________

H.R. 1456 is not about ending finning, therefore, but instead will cause the demise of a legal domestic industry.

The bill is well-intentioned and looks good on paper, but there are some key differences between it and the sea turtle conservation program.

Shark survival also contributes to an ever-growing shark ecotourism trade.

This bill, which has over 230 bipartisan co-sponsors, including the majority of this Committee and Subcommittee's members, would make it illegal to buy, sell, or possess shark fins in the United States.

Finning is not a problem within the U.S. The problem exists with other nations operating primarily on the high seas.

I cannot express how demoralizing it would be if Congress were to take away our needed shark fin income.

I personally thank Congressmen Webster and Lieu for introducing this proactive bill that levels the playing field for American fishermen.

The fact is that many, I daresay most, of the proponents of the domestic fin ban are actually committed to eliminating all shark fishing in the U.S.

The Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act (H.R. 5248) builds on and strengthens these past efforts.