Peter DeFazio: “Can we afford to walk away from six million jobs? I don't think so.”

I think there is going to be a lot of work coming.

As polar ice steadily decreases, new trade routes will emerge, linking Asia, North America, and Europe.

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.

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…