Rebuilding all fish stocks could increase the value of commercial fisheries by over 50 percent.

Science-based management of the ocean's bounty by regional stakeholders supported this success.

Since 1976, the Magnuson-Stevens Act--and, by the way, as that bill emerged from this Committee, it was called the Studds-Young bill after Congressman Gerry Studds and Congressman Don Young.

The Magnuson-Stevens Act has the same potential to guide us to the end of overfishing.

Demand among our colleagues for approval of legislation within the jurisdiction of the Natural Resources Committee remains exceedingly high.

Further cuts in the committee's budget could, as Chairman Hastings has noted, seriously impair our ability to hire and retain the skilled professional staff we need.

I would just give one example. We had the worst oil spill in world history last year, and it was on public lands in the jurisdiction of our committee in the Gulf of Mexico.

Notre Dame's superiority is a lifelong condition I have had to live with.

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