What would set us apart from authoritarian competitors and lay the groundwork for a truly American legacy in East Asia is also a strong commitment to advancing individual freedoms.

If your economy is demanding 2 million people a year to fill 2 million new jobs at a certain level, but you're only allowing a million people to come in, you have a supply-and-demand problem.

do you all agree that we need to maintain or increase the funding for the data collection?

I've made fixing this interstate allocation system for summer flounder one of my top priorities.

some of that money that was designed efficiently, the intended purpose to support these regionally driven fisheries, research, and management programs, some of that money has been diverted toward operational uses, correct?

I believe that there is one fundamental need that requires immediate attention by both stakeholders, NOAA, and Members of Congress, and that's the need to increase the frequency, the accuracy, and the validity of the science that we use as…

We're shining a national spotlight on one of the gravest problems facing New York's fishing industry.

I think without critical data, we can't make informed decisions and the more money we can associate towards increasing data collection and improving the data is what we need to focus on.

I'd urge the Committee to consider the expert testimony here today from our New York witnesses.

I believe that many of the issues we're going to address in the Subcommittee are of great importance to my state, to the state of Florida, and actually to the country.

And my final question is, do any of you have any specific recommendations as to how we can improve the collection of data related to the recreational industry in particular?