"I would urge the recreational sector to work with the MSA process, rather than weakening it by working around it!"
"In weakening the conservation standards and eliminating catch limits for private anglers, the bill ignores the precautionary principle for data-poor stocks."
"H.R. 2023, the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Act, seeks to create the flexibility necessary to effectively balance management of commercial and recreational fisheries."
"Today's hearing seeks to address Federal fisheries management issues that we have been discussing in this Committee for quite some time now."
"I blame some of your predecessors for the land loss in Louisiana, and I am just asking you to be part of the solution."
"It seems like it is contradictory."
"I signed a letter together with Congressman DeFazio asking the President to dedicate the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund."
"The West Shore Project in Louisiana was in a study phase for 42 years before the report being finished last year."
"You can never explain, justify those types of schedules to any taxpayer and we shouldn't ever have to."
"I don't understand how the Corps can go enforce laws and say to the American taxpayer, you have to comply with this law, yet the Corps itself is ignoring many laws that we write here on this committee..."
"The last thing in the world we need is to have $1 trillion sitting in the bank because we can't spend it because we are stuck on preconstruction activities."