And would you acknowledge that that has an economic impact, certainly to the commercial fishermen out there who have a smaller and smaller window if you will of fishing opportunities?

I am troubled that these executive branch actions are moving forward without Congressional or statutory approval.

I would urge you, consistent with your agency's mission to 'conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation's economic, social and environmental needs' to be a part of the development of this approach...

Such decisions made without adequate scientific information are unacceptable.

I look forward to a robust oversight of NOAA's programs and activities to ensure that species, coastal areas--and American jobs--are protected.

Is it fair to say that if stock surveys and assessments are not done in a timely manner by your agency, fishermen pay the price because of the scientists and managers having to build several layers of precaution into the models in order to…

Old data means that your scientists and fisher managers include multiple layers of precaution when running their models.

How do you set that priority in terms of fisheries? Who gets the attention first?

Old data means your scientists and fishery managers include multiple layers of precaution when running their models.

Some of the data is as old as 10 years, and so are you putting that at a priority as well, going back to those that are maybe the most overdue?

Are we really being penny wise and pound foolish by spending so much money on things that have a very vague and maybe long term aspect?

However, satellites are darn expensive.

Commercial and recreational fisheries supporting 1.9 million jobs, and generating $163 billion in sales impact in 2008.

So if you really wanted to create jobs, you would have abandoned these global warming fairy tales and shifted your efforts to ending the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.

Now, I understand that the NOAA fleet will be able to spend about half of the amount of time in Fiscal year 2011 as it did in Fiscal Year 2010 for fisheries stock assessments.

I am sympathetic to both concerns.

The lack of regulations has created uncertainty in the region and has had an adverse impact on job creation and the local economy.

With regard to the ``kinetic military action'' in Libya, it appears the tail is wagging the dog. The President first says we won't go but Qadhafi must. Then he says we must go but not Qadhafi. He consults the Arab league before his own…

It is all about supply and demand.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me say first of all that I want to compliment this panel, because this is some of the most cogent informative stuff that we have had in a long time here.

So despite some of the things that you are hearing here today, information that is coming from your agency is telling us that we have a lot of stuff that we can use for many years.

So we actually have people in Washington here who are working to get that price up, when the rest of America is going to the pump and seeing a $50 fill-up in their car jump to $75, and that is crunching the family budget.

We in Louisiana had to suffer through the BP spill, which is bad enough, but look what the President has done to us since. First, he placed a moratorium on offshore drilling, killing thousands of Louisiana jobs. Then the President was held…

the Administration is comfortable with the regulations because there has been two permits issued, so I think that really ends that debate.

What happened to the rule of law? Last week, the U.S. Justice Department announced that President Obama would stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act. I remind you that the President took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution…