Peter DeFazio: “It is our hope that the committee will consider this legislation in the very near future and send it to the Floor.”

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.

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

I still don't know why it happened.

So, I guess that kind of raises the issue, which I will be passing on to Garret Graves, who I think will chair this committee in the future, of whether or not we should raise the passenger facility charge so we have a user fee which pays…