Tammy Baldwin

So Coast Guard procurement contracts and subcontracts that are not bound by Buy American laws, such as acquisitions of outboard motors, diesel engines or auxiliary and deck equipment, can you give me or the Committee some examples of Coast…

In the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2019 Homeland Security Funding Bill, I've helped secure another $5 million.

I introduced my Made in America Shipbuilding Act to address these unacceptable situations by expanding current Buy American laws.

We need to ensure that they have the right assets to do that.

I have fought to include $5 million in additional funding above the Coast Guard's budget requests in Fiscal Year 2017 and 2018 for the survey and design of a Great Lakes icebreaker that is at least as capable as the Mackinaw.

Senator Baldwin's bill is needed.

The efforts by the Coast Guard and NOAA in response to Hurricane Michael once again highlight how important these agencies are to ensuring the life and safety of U.S. citizens.

Back to the Made in America Shipbuilding Act, it would not only help strengthen our national security but I think it also makes a strong economic argument for government by lowering life cycle costs.

The Coast Guard saves about 4,000 lives each year.

I suggested that there are a lot of Federal agencies that operate in rural parts of my state every day.

These reporting requirements are unnecessary in their circumstances and very burdensome.

I expressed my concern that we rely too much on the industry alone to tell us where the service exists.

Current USF funding shortfalls are preventing new broadband deployments and driving up prices for our rural customers.

This shouldn't be happening in the United States of America in the year 2018.

America's rural consumers can't afford to wait.

I think more generally in response to your specific question, we should recognize that there is an obligation across industries to invest heavily in consumer education and consumer awareness.

We believe any future framework should likewise empower the consumer to really have an affirmative choice about how their data is used.

I just want to put a question out there for the record and I'll follow up with the witnesses later.

I think there's a broad agreement that the same data privacy standards should apply to a range of actors in this sector.

I would associate myself with the comments of other Senators that we hear some additional perspectives in future hearings on data privacy.

The Chinese Coast Guard moved from being under the State Oceanic Administration to being under the command of its military governing Central Military Commission.

Climate change and ocean acidification are exacerbating fishery conflicts.

The United States is a major player in the world fishery industry.

We have a responsibility to help sustainably manage global fisheries.

Our Coast Guard conducted a joint boarding of this Chinese-flagged vessel along with a Chinese ship-rider...