Rob Bishop: “There really is no reason to add to this hearing--unless it is to give Members another 5 minutes to campaign, or speak…”

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

All of those legitimate questions are not going to be addressed in this Committee hearing today.

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…

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.