The congressional hearings on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) thus far convened by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations/SFRC make a mockery of the US Senate’s constitutional ‘advise and consent’ responsibility and offend Americans’ constitutional ‘right-to-know’ about matters that are likely to adversely affect their constitutional rights and economic lives and to impair US national sovereignty. The purpose of this article is to prompt the United States Congress to hold open, transparent and substantive public hearings to discuss, evaluate and explain to the American people the significant environmental regulatory and judicial enforcement aspects of the UNCLOS before that treaty is submitted to the full Senate for a vote of accession.