Peter DeFazio: “Your staff has the proposal that I worked on, and we have made it available to others. So it is not a secret.”

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.

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

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

I still don't know why it happened.