Rob Bishop

The NOAA Corps is a very small, underutilized but uniformed service group. It prevents questions with this type of group, with their history that they have, first of all: Why should they exist in the first place? But more significantly…

This is a good bill, and we obviously have no problems with this particular bill. When I started, I talked about kleinigkeiten on the small stuff. As good as this is, it is still small stuff and, actually, it is taken out--it is a portion…

I include in the Record two documents. The first document is the dissenting views that Republicans filed on this bill in the committee. The second is the summary of problems that the Department of Commerce Inspector General, the GAO and…

Is the gentleman sure he really wants the Federal Government having a forest in his place?

Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being forced to actually deal with the local community on…

I am assuming I have the traditional 15 minutes remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 16\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Is there any time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 15 minutes remaining.

With that mask, it is a lot easier to do that, too. I appreciate the offer to be involved in this lameduck session here today. It is one of those things that you have to take in some kind of stride. One assumes that if you are coming back…

Just as locking up large sums of lands has been a terrible and expensive idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans does not translate to good stewardship.

The current system protects biodiversity over 100 percent of the Economic Zone of the United States through the councils.

the major threat to sustainable jobs, food, recreational opportunities, and revenue from U.S. marine fisheries is not overfishing, but underfishing.

the Magnuson-Stevens Act is not just for the conservation and management of fishery resources, but also to assure that our citizens benefit from employment, food supply, and revenue which could be generated from these resources.

Instead of helping, it seems the Majority is more interested in putting fishermen's livelihood at risk in the name of faux conservation.

I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.

Both states and the Federal Government should play key roles in managing fisheries.

Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.

I think many of those local fisheries on the coast would have some quibbling with your jurisdictional approach.

As now we come to some of the realities of this particular bill and the procedures. Mr. Speaker, it would be nice if we actually dealt with the good of the body and recognize that reauthorizations are important so that we can reevaluate…

state management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system

There really is no reason to add to this hearing--unless it is to give Members another 5 minutes to campaign, or speak on the bills. It is kind of a waste of time.

If the gentleman has no other speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

The Majority is pushing a so-called 30x30 idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans by 2030, all under the guise of protecting biodiversity while tackling climate change.

This ban is even more ridiculous after we just locked in mandatory spending of $900 million in perpetuity with the so-called Great American Outdoors Act.