florida. i've hunted alligators and pythons in the everglades. i've jogged the sands of just about every florida beach from pensacola to the keys. and, of course, i strapped in to a million pounds to launch to the heavens and to see our planet from a way that very few others have. you've heard me talk about that as i describe our environment and how beautiful this planet is from the window of a spacecraft. and of course these experiences in this country, it's the american people. it's every one of us. it's our fellow citizens, the teachers, the soldiers, the factory workers, the moms, the dads, the students, the farmers, those are the ones that have inspired me to dedicate a life to public service. and those folks have been my strength. as they or of ten your strength. -- as they are often your strength. it's the person people who have kept me going for the past 46 years of public service. and while i have experienced the highs and lows of serving in the senate, it is often the small, unnoticed steps toward progress that have made this journey wor

florida. i've hunted alligators and pythons in the everglades. i've jogged the sands of just about every florida beach from pensacola to the keys. and, of course, i strapped in to a million pounds to launch to the heavens and to see our planet from a way that very few others have. you've heard me talk about that as i describe our environment and how beautiful this planet is from the window of a spacecraft. and of course these experiences in this country, it's the american people. it's every one of us. it's our fellow citizens, the teachers, the soldiers, the factory workers, the moms, the dads, the students, the farmers, those are the ones that have inspired me to dedicate a life to public service. and those folks have been my strength. as they or of ten your strength. -- as they are often your strength. it's the person people who have kept me going for the past 46 years of public service. and while i have experienced the highs and lows of serving in the senate, it is often the small, unnoticed steps toward progress that have made this journey wor

we secured funding for everglades restoration if water quality improvements in the florida key, for important infrastructure projects in south florida. we honored our fwripets guaranteeing them the resources they need and granting them the raises they've earned. we also invested in american children, making it easier for immigrant students to learn english and protecting the accountability framework that put all students at the center of the public education system. and we delivered historic tax relief for florida workers and famries while making american businesses more competitive. in our hemisphere i have advocated for the oppressed people of cuba, venezuela, and nicaragua and encouraged the administration to forge strong relationships with leaders committed to human right the rule of law and economic growth and prosperity in countries like brazil, columbia -- colombia, ar general tee narc coast rah rika, panama and others. in the middle east i have worked to support and bolster the critical u.s.-israel alliance while holding the terrorist mue la regime in iran accountable for its countles

he protected the everglades, florida's beaches and offshore drilling. there's none in florida, and i have to say the reason is hitting to my left, bill nelson. time and time again when rapacious companies and others wanted to drill and risk the beauty of florida's coastline and economic vitality, there was bill nelson preventing it from happening. after the oil -- after the bp oil spill, bill nelson made sure that florida's gulf communities got the restitution they deserved from b.p.'s settlement. senator nelson has always been a loud voice speaking about the need for action on climate change as his beloved state of florida gets hit by ever-more powerful storms and the low-lying areas like miami get flooded regularly. of course, seeing the earth from space didn't just focus bill's eyes downward. this man is capable of doing many good things at once. he kept them firmly fixed on the horizons as well. mr. president, it will be a long time before the senate sees a champion for nasa and space exploration like bill nelson. it may never see one as committed a

. >> big threato our drinking supply, the everglades houses you will at water for south florida.water comes in it threatens the drinking water. ocean acidification and as we get higher carbon dioxide in our ocean it kills ouref which are essential to ocean eco-systems it. the point anne made iso important. we need to start covering the debate and start covering the story so tha people see that this is real and so that politicians take a more pragmatic approach and find solutions that are actlly achieveable. >> and if you think those high tides bother you once a month, wait until they happen every day, and that's what the reports say. if we don't do something about cutting our greenhouse gas emissions and that's going t happen, hand not just in miami. it will happenvi iinia and newport news and where the naval bases are, and they are already dealing with that high tide flooding, and it's going to affect places like new york and boston and cape cod, and we'r- new orleans, we're going to have big problems. >> i don't know what to say. iive in new york, and the subway is projected to

. >> a big threat to our drinking water supply, the everglades houses all of the water for south floridater comes in and threatens that drinking water supply as we get higher carbon dioxide content in the ocean and that kills our reefs, of course, reefs are essential to ocean ecosystem. so i think the point ann made is so important. we need to start covering the debate and start covering the story so that people see that this is real and so that politicians take a more pragmatic approach and find solutions that are achievable. >> if you think those high tides bother you once a month wait until they happen every day and that's what the reports say. if we don't do something about cutting our greenhouse gas emissions that will happen and it will not just happen in miami and it will happen in virginia and newport news and they're dealing with that high tide flooding and it's going to affect places like new york and boston and cape cod and new orleans. we're going have big problems. >> i just have to say i live in new york and the subway is projected to flood every five years by the middle of

forget my visit with bill to the everglades where he clearly in his element introduced me to some alligators and some unwelcomed python squatters, who nonetheless love florida too, and i have a photo of bill holding on to one of those big snakes and makes our rattlesnakes in south dakota look small by comparison. certainly in instances when we use the authorities of our committee to demand answers about all these other important issues, we worked closely together. and i was pleased not only to have senator nelson in florida, to join him in florida, but also to welcome him in south dakota to show him some of the issues important to our state. i had the privilege of showing senator nelson on a very cold october day mount rushmore. and i remember as we were walking up there the wind was flowing, -- blowing, as it typically does in south dakota, 40 miles per hour, and it was very cold and i know he spends a great deal of time in florida where many of my constituents, like senator klobuchar's spend their winters, that it felt especially cold to him. but we had a chance to go underground and look at some of the tunnels of the gold mines tunnels that are part of t

if you go up the coast there, canaveral is third and port everglades the third, and a couple hundred mile stretch of florida, the three largest cruise ship ports in the world and millions of passengers go through it. when you think of it is an adversary and terrorist standpoint and talk about impact can the psyche or economic well-being of a nation, those are attractive targets. would he have sufficient presence on an unpredictable basis using different algorithms to make sure we deter things there. if we look at the container port. port of los angeles long beach. the collective port. 40% of what we buy at macy's, walmart, comes through that one port alone. and we have a physical presence there. we have a presence working with the port interest on the cyber part. and when we talk about cyber, there is our own cyber residing on the department of defense system and then the glaregulato cyber piece that helps with good behavior. when you think about private interests in a port, if you have vulnerability in the cyber systems, you don't want to talk about that, that could be seen as an economic vulnerability. bu

secretary of interior from 1971 to 1977 and later returned to florida to form an advocacy group to help preserve and restore the everglades. he joined forces with former senator bob graham to launch the florida conservation coalition. renaming the hobe sound national wildlife refuge which is located near his home in florida to nathaniel p. reed hobe would honor him. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona. mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. speaker. this bill redesignates the hobe sound national wildlife refuge in southern florida as the nathaniel p. reed hobe sound national wildlife refuge. , concur with the gentleman the majority, mr. mcclintock on this issue. we ask all members to please vote in favor of the resolution. it's a fitting tribute to a former interior department official who helped develop the endangered species act and the clean water act. it's a fitting tribute and we urge passage and we yield back the remainder of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the ge

we secured funding for everglades restoration if water quality improvements in the florida key, for important infrastructure projects in south florida. we honored our fwripets guaranteeing them the resources they need and granting them the raises they've earned. we also invested in american children, making it easier for immigrant students to learn english and protecting the accountability framework that put all students at the center of the public education system. and we delivered historic tax relief for florida workers and famries while making american businesses more competitive. in our hemisphere i have advocated for the oppressed people of cuba, venezuela, and nicaragua and encouraged the administration to forge strong relationships with leaders committed to human right the rule of law and economic growth and prosperity in countries like brazil, columbia -- colombia, ar general tee narc coast rah rika, panama and others. in the middle east i have worked to support and bolster the critical u.s.-israel alliance while holding the terrorist mue la regime in iran accountable for its countles

everglades over the weekend. look at this 18 feet long, the largest caught in the species removal program. they're destroying florida's and the state has hired people to catch and kill those giant snakes. >> that's a big boy. >>> a rare tornado has caused serious damage near seattle, take a look at this. the tornado touched down south of the city of port orchard before 2:00 yesterday afternoon. aerial footage showed it tore off roofs and a gas line was ruptured, no immediate reports of injuries, that's the good nice, the red cross has opened and evaluation center for those displaced by the storm. >>> and two sheriff's deputies are heroes. they pulled a unconscious man out of a burning car, it happened so far, their instincts kicked in. >> we can't let this guy burn to death in front of us, we tuned out the news and i focused on what needed to be done. >> the body cams captured the rescue as it happened. these deputies are responding to an overturned car that crashed last week. they found the car and it was engulfed in flames. the man was on fire in the front seat. they pulled him out, took him tomorrow a hospital, he'

and it also authorized for the first time the comprehensive restoration plan for america's florida everglades. it was a 30-year multibillion-dollar effort to restore the everglades. what had happened ever since the beginning of the previous century in the early 1900's as florida started to be discovered and as people had increasingly come, the way was paved in the late 1800's by henry flag ler building his -- flagler, building his railroad. the railroad went down the east side of florida and got it to st. augustine and built a big hotel and that building is the administrative building of flagler college in st. august st. augustine. and then it was extended further to the daytona-orman beach location, had another big hotel. taking it further south all the way to west palm beach and building the famed breakers hotel in palm beach as well as a built -- biltmore hotel as there. and then finally henry flagler took it to miami and did a feat thought impossible through a string of islands called the florida keys, took the railroad all the way to key west. well, of course, this was a means of travel