This Subcommittee has heard loud and clear from many parts of the country that commercial and recreational fishing are being restricted due to inadequate or old data.

coastal communities are feeling the pain of tough economic times, and fishermen are having a hard time making ends meet.

We feel like that is a direct violation of the Constitution, and overreach of power.

This overly precautionary level of management is affecting the economies of our coastal communities.

commercial and recreational fishing are being restricted due to inadequate or old data.

There is a difference between having input and having a seat at the table.

Efforts to create Marine Protected Areas are growing even as questions about their effectiveness are being raised.

We now have reached a landmark, 2 years since the passage of ObamaCare. More and more, the American people have been hearing about something called IPAB, the Independent Payment Advisory Board--the centerpiece to ObamaCare and its…

that spatial planning is only adding another layer of bureaucracy to the process, slowing down the production of oil, increasing the prices of gasoline at the pump, and killing Louisiana jobs.

there is absolutely no evidence to support that.

I can tell you that one of the biggest complaints I get from my district... is that all of these agencies... seem not to understand the impact of regulations upon our cost...

the public must be given an opportunity to comment on the proposed draft environmental impact statement before and not after the agency implements its preference.

the Fish and Wildlife Service is considering management alternatives, which they believe will have a devastating economic impact on their town.

I am sorry, I am not compelled by that logic.

the reason they recommend no funding for the refuge revenue-sharing program is because refuges are economic engines for the local economies.

President Obama's mandate on abortion- inducing drugs and contraceptive services has not gone away--I repeat-- has not gone away. It has not been settled. There is no compromise. The administration's assault on the First Amendment…

I find it very difficult that we would pay $7.5 million of taxpayer money for land, buying a campground, when we don't even know if we are going to use it.

I am a logical thinker. I am a physician, a business person.

Why set about a plan that is impossible to execute when even at the end of the plan, you are no better off?

this process lacks transparency and indicates an unwillingness to work with either small businesses or the local Chincoteague community.

I mean, we are talking about a 1 percent chance of making that happen.

It begs the obvious question: Why don't you just give the visitors the choice?

So just to summarize, as I am running out of time, we have a land purchase--and again, while we are offline, we are going to look at this again; but everything about this contract, and I have dealt with a lot of contracts over a lot of…

the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and the 1.4 million people who visit it each year are critical to the economic vitality to the Town of Chincoteague.

However, we are talking about the fact that these parking lots, while they do require some measure of rebuilding at times, remodeling, and what have you, but I understand parking cost is 8 bucks an automobile.