natural resources committee,
bill flores of texas joins us
live.
good morning to you.
>> good morning.
how are y'all?
>> steve: doing great.
we read about this in human
events yesterday where
essentially the government is
talking about zoning the oceans?
>> that's correct.
that's exactly correct.
and congress talked about this
for eight years in the past.
not in this congress, but in
prior congresses.
and congress elected to do
nothing.
but now the president, by an
executive order, has decided
he's going to do this and you've
got dozens of agencies
participating in this process
and spending taxpayer dollars
that haven't been appropriated
and the process has not been
authorized.
>> brian: what's your greatest
fear?
what do you think the aim of the
white house is?
>> essentially what you could
do, if you look at the breadth
of the ruling, it says that it
wants to control activities in
the oceans and all the sources
thereof, which means that you
could thee receipticly have a
rainfall on...