PANAMA CITY — Verbal sparing on Capital Hill between U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland and two members of the National Ocean Policy team highlighted a disagreement over the Obama Administration’s coastal policies.
Southerland, R-Panama City, took the Obama Administration to task for “misleading the American people” in an attempt to increase its regulatory control over ocean and coastal waterways.
During a congressional session Wednesday, Southerland challenged the White House’s head of the Council on Environmental Quality Nancy H. Sutley and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco regarding additional regulations in the National Ocean Policy. The session was videotaped.
Southerland issued a statement last week decrying Washington regulations.
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