Thank you, Admiral, very much. Again, we thank all of the witnesses.
The choice is clear. We can support U.S. fishermen and coastal communities or we can continue to allow pirates and inter...
If we can eliminate the high piracy at sea our fishermen will benefit in price on the Japanese market.
Human trafficking is fundamentally a human rights issue.
Finally, the United States is going to be a cop on the beat enforcing these laws.
I strongly urge the U.S. Senate to demonstrate leadership and immediately ratify and implement the Port State Measures A...
The committee will reconvene and the Chair will recognize himself for a round of questions.
Thank you.
I think it is imperative that we pass this treaty, that we pass all the treaties, and we do so this year.
The empirical data on the extent of human trafficking is as hard to pin down as the data on the extent of illegal fishin...
I will work with my colleagues to try to get adequate funding for the program.
I just want to say thank you both very much. You both bring a lot of energy and a lot of innovative ideas to these jobs,...
It's clear to me that our country needs a strong early childhood education system. Investments in our children are inves...
I am not quite sure how this is a deterrent for other CEOs.
All of our regulators have conceded that our largest banks are still too-big-to-fail.
Perhaps this is a time to note that a 21st century Glass-Steagall would reduce both the size of the financial institutio...
Increasingly, State and Federal policymakers are considering measures to require preschool teachers to get at least some...
as long as teacher pay remains so low for our youngest learners, we're going to have difficulty attracting and keeping t...