Ed Markey

I think this is the most important hearing we are going to have on our relations with Mexico and with China this year in the Congress.

Thank you for your good work.

In recent years, we have seen more land-falling storms in the Northeast, in the mid-Atlantic, than we have in Florida.

We are getting more concerns as our waters warm in terms of what the implications can be

The potential for rising sea levels, the increased population, and the increased infrastructure, I am really worried about increased impacts from storm surge, from heavy rainfall.

In fact, one of these days, Senator Rubio, we are going to start having hurricanes in Florida like they do in the Northeast.

Although it was a Nor'easter that delivered the perfect storm, Massachusetts is not immune to hurricanes.

The Clean Water Act is an American success story.

The uncertainty about the Clean Water Rule is not good for business, not good for our communities, not good for our environment.

We can acknowledge the interconnectedness of our Nation's waterways and the importance of ensuring clean water or allow regulatory uncertainty to endanger our Nation's waterways.

I prefer the chapter with clarity, with clean water, and with a healthy future.

Please help us. Please don't leave this so confusing.

There is still work to be done.

It is that the ITU, which is an incredibly important organization for the United States and for the world, is a multilateral organization, not a multistakeholder organization.

It will signal very, very clearly that the United States has changed its position, that the United States no longer believes firmly in a multistakeholder, private sector led Internet.

It moves over to a different model altogether that ultimately could be much more dangerous and put much more control in the hands of foreign ministers.

We want to protect it.

It's, to me, the most important innovative technology of our lifetimes.

The need to internationalize Internet governance and to enhance in this regard the role of the International Telecommunications Union.

An alternative to the multistakeholder model are plans proposed by a number of countries, including China and Russia.

The NSG Guidelines fully allow for membership for non-NPT states, and the Administration does not believe that India needs to fulfill any additional requirements to support its already strong case for membership.

We have seen a proliferation in recent years. Certainly there has been more indication on the Pakistani side that it may be okay to use nuclear weapons in a regional conflict. That is obviously unacceptable.

It is an example for the rest of the world.

I just think it is a very dangerous long-term trend.

Making these exemptions only infuriates Pakistan and leads them to further increase their own nuclear capacities.