Rob Bishop: “What I am trying to do here is find out a way.”

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

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.

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.

This hearing, as far as understanding truth of what went on, and coming up with a good history, is going to be invalid.