"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."
"Considering we started at $475 million, and you have been proposing cuts was ever since."
"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."
"For years, every year I have been here, we have watched the administration cut funding for GLRI."
"I believe Sergeant Major Green brought up the nurses having a problem with credentialing."
"How would they be impacted by BRAC?"
"Level funding, in some instances, is a victory."
"The Great Lakes are a monumentally unique national treasure containing nearly 95 percent of the United States fresh surface water."
"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."