I've been advocating for marine monuments and national marine sanctuaries in the US Pacific territories since 2007.   I've literally been there since the beginning, as  I was seated about 10 feet away from George W. Bush  when he designated the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument in 2009.    I am also the conservation chair for the  Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Community Group, founded the Friends of the Mariana Trench, and wrote the nomination for the erstwhile Mariana Trench National Marine Sanctuary.   I was involved in efforts to expand the Pacific Remote Islands in 2014 and Papahanaumokuakea in 2016.  But  I was not involved in the 2022 effort to ask President Biden to expand the Pacific Remote Islands using the Antiquities Act (although I did review some of their materials ahead of launching their campaign), nor was I involved in nominating the area as a proposed national marine sanctuary. Nation...