Peter DeFazio: “Thank you, Chairman Lipinski and Ranking Member Crawford, for calling today's hearing to look at issues surrounding…”

We have to provide resources to the Coast Guard so they can mitigate the effects of climate change in their operational planning.

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.

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…