[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14660]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CAPITOL HILL OCEANS WEEK

  (Mr. FARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Capitol Hill 
Oceans Week. The President has declared June as Oceans Month, and this 
Friday will be an international celebration of Oceans Day.
  Why do we need to pay attention to the oceans? Well, the oceans are 
dying, and the earth is dependent upon them. We are dumping everything 
we don't want into the ocean and extracting every living thing we can 
to eat.
  We've created commissions by Congress and by private trust of the 
best talent in America to advise Congress on what we should do, and 
they recommended national ocean governance policies, new policies that 
can be adopted by this Congress.
  I've introduced that bill, H.R. 21, and as National Oceans Week, Day 
and Month, I'd like to ask all my colleagues to seriously consider 
cosponsoring H.R. 21. It provides solutions to the problems of the 
earth.

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