Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank my friend from Michigan, and I want to thank Chairman Grijalva and Ranking Member Bishop for their work on this legislation, the DESCEND Act. Mr. Speaker, years ago, the Federal Government tried to tell our communities--all of us grew up fishing and, many, for sustenance and for recreation. It is our outdoors. The Federal Government told us that we would only get 3 to 9 days to fish for red snapper. Mr. Speaker, when I was a kid, we did it year-round. That is our recreation. As much as I would love to have them, we don't have mountains and the other recreational opportunities that go along with those types of elevation changes. I will say it again: Fishing is our outdoors. It is what we do at home, and that was being taken away from us. Congressman Huffman from California and I will tell you, Mr. Speaker, we totally disagreed on the solution there. He and I butted heads for years trying to work through a solution. On this bill, my most-of-the- time friend Mr. Huffman and I are in lockstep. We are joined as cosponsors on this bill and are moving this one together because we believe this is the right solution, as you heard Mrs. Dingell just explain. What happens is that we do have a season on red snapper. You can only fish for a certain number of days a year, yet you can't tell which fish is going to bite your line when it is down under the water. Red snapper spend the majority of their life at 100 feet or below.…”