Now this is something I'm particularly proud of because as you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Yep. The Coast Guard is in our jurisdiction. So I wrote the coast guard provision. $24 billion for the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in the Coast Guard in the history of the United States of America. To give you a sense of the scope of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the coast guard is about $12 billion. (22:49–22:59)
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