09/11/2013
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"Thank you, and if I can first respond to your words of welcome, it is a delight to get to join you as the Ranking Democrat on this Subcommittee."
"I think of it as a state with three coasts, three freshwater coasts, the East Coast of Lake Michigan, the North Coast of Lake Superior, and the West Coast of the St. Croix River, and the Mighty Missis..."
"I believe we must be guided, as previous generations were, by the commitment to protect these important species so that they continue to rebound and thrive in the future."
"Climate change poses growing threats to my home state of Wisconsin and we know that Great Lakes Region also and, frankly, the world."