"It's about ecological productivity, helping to address sea rise challenges and vulnerabilities."
"An authorization should mean something to someone, it should mean something to our residence, not the actual death sentence."
"I agree with you. And it is something we have been battling to try to address now for many years."
"I do believe that the climate is changing, and I think I have said that at virtually every hearing we have had where climate has been discussed."
"South Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles, and it is really extraordinary, and it is losing communities, it is losing people."
"I can't tell you how much I appreciate somebody else walking into this Committee to talk about south Louisiana."
"That letter was signed by Senators Schumer, Cantwell, Menendez, and Markey. That letter was written to the President of the United States, asking that the President work with our OPEC allies to increa..."
"I do appreciate that you all have taken steps, I do."
"I want to ask to insert in the record two things."
"That law that we worked closely with your delegation in putting together does provide some additional flexibility and dollars on more resilient reconstruction."
"We are also the top fisheries producer, in terms of commercial fisheries in the continental United States."