So what is the rush to create a program that is so hard to reverse?

What happens when a fisherman retires, and when they decide that they don't want to do it anymore?

the only investing going on now are foreign governments, including China, investing our bonds because we are running a $1.5 trillion deficit.

H.R. 1 actually will improve the job environment in the United States, not make it worse.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

If there is no funding. If there is no Federal funding, that community has to come up with the dough?

I don't know what you have done to gain the ire of so many hardworking people in my district, but you have.

They can't afford a 50 percent increase in their taxes from an unfunded mandate coming from a faceless bureaucrat.

I look forward to a spirited hearing today, as it should be whenever we're talking about something as important as clean water.

What took 2 years to implement a rule that milk spills on a dairy farm should not come under oil disaster response plans?

$17 million, Ms. Stoner. That's the President's increase. Anne Arundel County alone has a fiscal year 2012 share--that's one of my 12 counties...their share alone is $200 million.