I thought it was a mistake to give law enforcement authority the ability to seize people's property, frankly, promiscuously.

These bills deserve the support of this committee and swift action on the House floor.

Yes, we need a standard, but I do not think any harm comes from saying that in exigent circumstances if you are moving toward an appropriate level of punishment that there should not be an ability to waive for a couple of years.

I mean, the concern obviously is they are still using this and you are essentially encouraging or forcing the regional managers to implement catch limits, but we are still using the old data.

While the RFMCs are given some flexibility to tailor their approaches to management plans the one area that remains rigid is in regard to stock rebuilding.

Do you believe that it is fair that NMFS is moving forward with forcing regional management fishery councils to implement annual catch limits while the recreational information program that was designed to ensure ACLs were developed with…

We should not repeat the Mariner's mistake and harm what is leading America's fisheries into safer seas.

Section 2 of H.R. 3061 introduced by Representative Pallone meets the real need we have to be able to fish on rebuilding stocks whether they are overfished or undergoing overfishing.

I want to thank Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member Markey for holding today's hearing.

I appreciate my colleague from Massachusetts playing the role that he is doing and his cosponsorship of our bill.

I want to follow up on my colleague from Tennessee. I heard my Republican colleague on the other side of the aisle talk about the Senate. Well, the fact of the matter is that the Senate Democrats, on at least two occasions, have tried to…

The ACA outlaws such a practice.