Peter DeFazio: “Oversight of cargo preference laws is long overdue, and this hearing could not come at a better time.”

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

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.

I still don't know why it happened.

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