Peter DeFazio: “Congress needs to make protecting and preserving the Great Lakes a national priority--it can do this by authorizing this…”

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

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.

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.

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…