Seismic air gun blasting for oil and gas has ramifications for all manner of marine life.

This is concerning, as healthy fish stocks are critical for our Nation to continue to thrive.

If that information will be available to the public, then why are there five different companies seeking permits to explore the same area?

Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I am profoundly concerned with the possible permitting of seismic airgun blasting off the Atlantic Coast, from Jacksonville, Florida, to Cape May, New Jersey, to Portland, Maine. This is an extremely…

I do have legislation that would disallow the permitting of the five seismic studies.

Will the public have access to the data collected by these companies on possible oil and gas deposits off of our shores?

Madam Chairwoman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 16, strike the close quotation marks and the following period. Page 3, after…

Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. My amendment will ensure that from the date a firearm purchase is legally authorized under the bill, the firearm purchaser has 25 calendar days to pick up their gun, regardless of how…

Madam Chairwoman, I would just again emphasize that this is 25 days after the approval, and also that law supersedes regulation. There is no question that that 25 days would be in place and that would give more than a sufficient amount of…

Madam Speaker, thank you for allowing me to raise awareness for Children's Dental Health Month. Madam Speaker, I rise today because tooth decay is the number one chronic infectious disease among children in the United States, and the…

Madam Chair, I thank the chairman, and just as a couple of other points, on a personal level, I have always been a supporter of Second Amendment rights and continue to be. The purpose of this amendment is to, obviously, do so, support…