This adds a finding to it. It doesn't have any cost. This is not a duplicative program because it is a finding, so I support this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Panetta). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
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All of those legitimate questions are not going to be addressed in this Committee hearing today.
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.
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 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.
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