Steve Southerland: “And I think to ask what the economic impacts are before we push these regulations over on someone, I think that is a…”

we cannot increase taxes on hardworking families that are making their living fishing, and yet we have the ability to go out and remove reefs with explosives that kill tens of thousands of fish

1,700 days and counting: that's how long it's been since the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline was submitted to the State Department. And with each passing day, every new delay, job creation has been stalled and American energy…

I mean I look at when you have had 50 percent reduction in water flows, it is having a--you did allude to the oyster industry down in Apalachicola. That is the heart of my district.

I have seen firsthand the devastating impact of reduced downstream flows on this community's ecosystem, environment, and economy.