Dave Joyce

We can't afford to let some of these brilliant researchers not get the support they need.

For years, every year I have been here, we have watched the administration cut funding for GLRI.

In the past 2 years, there have been harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie that have impacted access to safe drinking water.

I learned a great lesson from Representative Kaptur.

Considering we started at $475 million, and you have been proposing cuts was ever since.

How will the administration's proposed $50 million cut to the GLRI impact our ability to restore and maintain the environmental integrity of the Great Lakes ecosystem?

So, Director Ashe, I would like to get a little bit of an update from you on how the Fish and Wildlife Service is leveraging funds.

How would they be impacted by BRAC?

I believe Sergeant Major Green brought up the nurses having a problem with credentialing.

We urge you to get on top of this issue because we only have once chance to do this right.

I really believe this is one of the most bipartisan, as I said before, intra-governmental, non-governmental programs, and we are all working together.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a critical role to play in working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help it understand the urgency relating to the movement of Asian carp toward Lake Michigan.

The Great Lakes are a monumentally unique national treasure containing nearly 95 percent of the United States fresh surface water.

The source of fires in our neighborhood is mostly fireplaces.

You hit on a good point with the sugar maples because that is a big industry in our area.

Level funding, in some instances, is a victory.

I was wondering what, if anything, you plan to do with the flat budget to help local communities fight the emerald ash borer scourge.

In Ohio, we have an aggressive problem with the emerald ash borer.

I have to tell you that one of the most stunning things to me being from Ohio when I got on this committee was the amount of money we spend on fire suppression.

Our colleague, Congressman David Joyce, introduced H.R. 223 to amend the Great Lakes program provisions under section 118 of the Clean Water Act to formally authorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for 5 years.

Isn't that actually improper political influence? It sure looks like it.

The President's unilateral action demonstrates intentional disregard for the legislative authority of the Congress under the Constitution

It is supremely disappointing to me that the President's egregious circumvention of Congress has shifted the conversation away from where it ought to be.

You simply cannot expect the Congress to stand idly by when the President circumvents this entire branch of government.

I come here after serving 25 years as a prosecutor, and unfortunately, this is the three-year anniversary of a school shooting in which three kids were killed and many more kids wounded, so it is something near and dear to me.