Rick Larsen actually said...

The FAA bill is a great bill, or is it the greatest bill? Frankly, it is the greatest.

The Coast Guard is facing a 3,000-person shortage, which has degraded the mission readiness of the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard's role in immigration enforcement is to ensure safety and engage in search-and-rescue missions.

Despite this, over the past 3 years, the Coast Guard has failed to reach its 10 percent interdiction goal of known cocaine flow.