Peter DeFazio: “I appreciate your holding this hearing.”

The Coast Guard does not have the privilege of ignoring the significant and consequential impacts that climate change is having on our environment.

Being Chair of the Committee over the past four years has been the highlight of my 36-year career.

I just really think, even when we finally get to three functional, modern, major icebreakers, I mean, you still have the Antarctic mission and other things.

The idiots in the Senate have been unable to approve the Law of the Sea Treaty, so, we don't have full standing to object to Russia continually extending claims further and further into the Arctic region.