Peter DeFazio: “I would say that today's hearing is really the culmination of a deterioration that we have seen over a number of years.”

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.

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.