I know as an appropriator he knows how well and important the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund is, just as my colleagues from Alaska, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana. No. So the whole region knows how important these funds are. So Congress has rejected [the Trump] administration's attempts in the NOAA budget to cut $1.7 billion out of the NOAA budget. It literally wanted to slash the entire R and D arm of NOAA and slash the NOAA fisheries by 29%. And these three bills today obviously reject that. (03:24–03:31)
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