Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, Congressman Graves, for yielding to me. Again, I support this bill, S. 1982, Save Our Seas 2.0. This is a great bipartisan bill. Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague, the caucus co-chair, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, for this bill. This is our bill. It is a Senate bill we are taking up, but we have been working on this bill. Again, it is an issue. I agree with everything that has been said about the pollution in our oceans. This is probably bigger than the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez, the plastics that are in our seas, and we have got to take up and address this issue. This is just the beginning. We need to do more, but we have to take the short step first, and then we will continue to do it. You know, in Alaska, the ocean is our highway. We need to clean it; we want to work on it. We have to address that issue at sea, too. You know, plastic is one of those things that really does not deteriorate very rapidly, but when it does, fish will eat it, and we get condemned and contaminated fish. We do not need that in Alaska. It will clean up our oceans, as I mentioned before, and asks for cooperation from other countries. America is not the worst polluter. There are other countries that pollute just as equally or more, and it all collects in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We have an area out there as big as the State of Texas full of pollution. We have to start cleaning it up and stop it if we can. Mr.…”