Issa has introduced the legislation twice in the past. | AP Photos Issa: Put Reagan's name on waters

Ronald Reagan already serves as the namesake for an airport, two federal courthouses, a state office building in his native California, a Colorado highway, a mountain in New Hampshire, a nuclear-powered aircraft career and a missile defense test site in the Marshall Islands.

But Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to name something else after the 40th president: nearly all U.S. coastal waters.


Issa introduced legislation Wednesday to rename the United States’ exclusive economic zone — the area off the American coast where the U.S. has the right to use natural resources, create artificial islands and preserve the environment — the Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone. The zone extends up to 200 miles off the shoreline.

Reagan created the exclusive economic zone by presidential proclamation in 1983.

Issa has introduced the legislation, which was referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources, twice in the past. Both times the bill died without receiving a vote in committee.

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