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thing I have ever seen. I am trying to rebuild it. Maybe I am going 

 to have to move Senator Stevens down so I can get some facilities 

 in my own home State. 



But let me say something advisedly. I have been a former chair- 

 man of the Budget Committee and I have gotten into a bad habit 

 about cost-benefit ratios and productivity and everything else, just 

 like a business would do, of all the facets of our Federal Govern- 

 ment. I know of no Federal agency where the taxpayers get a bet- 

 ter return than they do from the U.S. Coast Guard. I say that ad- 

 visedly. 



I am an addict, you might say, of the Army, Navy, Air Corps, 

 Marines, but more than an addict on the U.S. Coast Guard. I have 

 seen them go out at 2 o'clock in the morning,, past the 12-mile 

 marker to 90 miles, climb up 30 feet high on the side of a big tank- 

 er and bring it in full of marijuana. Those 21- and 22-year-olds can 

 do that. And I have seen them in rescue missions and what have 

 you. Ironically, when we enacted the Magnuson act in 1976, we ex- 

 tended to 200 miles the limit of jurisdiction of the United States, 

 veritably increasing the size of the United States by one-third. In 

 doing so, we increased overwhelming, the responsibility of the 

 Coast Guard. Then, we started cutting their budget. 



And that is intramural with Senator Stevens and myself. If it 

 had not been for Senator Stevens and a few others on the Defense 

 Appropriations Subcommittee, we could not really get the job done. 

 They have been underfunded and yet they have not complained. 

 They have taken as their assignment, not only additional jurisdic- 

 tion, but now the drug war, illegal immigration, and everything 

 else, working around the clock. 



Up here in the fisheries, the job grows and grows, and the en- 

 forcement responsibilities enlarge each day. So, it is a wonderful 

 privilege to hear from Admiral Rufe on fishery enforcement. I will 

 be listening sympathetically, because you folks do not know how to 

 ask for money. You all ought to go to the Navy; they know how to 

 ask. Admiral Rufe, let us hear from you, sir. 



STATEMENT OF ADM. ROGER T. RUFE, COMMANDER, 17TH 



COAST GUARD DISTRICT 



Admiral Rufe. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Senator Stevens. 

 First, let me thank you for your kind words this morning about the 

 Coast Guard, and more than that, you have certainly backed your 

 words up with real support. This morning you both had an oppor- 

 tunity to visit our base in Kodiak and I think see the results of 

 some of your efforts in improving the facilities for our people in Ko- 

 diak. So, on behalf of all of my shipmates who live and work on 

 that base in Kodiak, I thank you for your support. 



I am prepared this morning to report to you on the Coast 

 Guard's fisheries law enforcement program in the waters of the 

 North Pacific and Alaska and to provide you my views regarding 

 the reauthorization of the Magnuson Act. With your permission, I 

 will summarize my prepared statement. 



The Chairman. The prepared statement will be included in its 

 entirety in the record. I can say that for all the witnesses, and they 

 can deliver or highlight their testimony as they wish. Thank you. 



