Peter DeFazio: “Tomorrow is National Maritime Day, a day to celebrate the United States of America as a great maritime nation.”

It is not excusable for this to be happening. These are special items, sometimes irreplaceable or nearly irreplaceable items and certainly in the short term. This has got to change.

I also want to thank Chairman DeFazio in particular for his work in shaping this legislation.

The Payroll Support Program worked, full stop.

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.