Rob Bishop: “If we approved a BRAC nothing would change at all.”

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…

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

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

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.