It's not so much that you're doing it in Catch Shares, as where you're taking it from.

It doesn't even acknowledge what our fishermen have been doing: following for many years the scientific and regulatory of ICCAT and their recommendations, and now they're going to pay the ultimate price.

I find this counterintuitive at best.

There has to be a level of urgency, very aggressive, assertive leadership, and a timetable for which to accomplish it.

I think it's staggering, to be honest with you.

I and 14 of my colleagues sent a letter to you and to Fish and Wildlife stating our opposition to listing the tuna.

I'm not arguing so much for or against the Catch Share as I am arguing about where you're drawing the money from.

I understand the pain and agony right now in your fisheries, and we have a lot of lessons that we have learned in Alaska waters.

I truly am disturbed about the lack of certainty with respect to this type of decision, on which we should have the very best and most accurate information.

It is shocking when you consider our mortality rate has not decreased and new treatments and an early detection test are still so desperately needed.

I have long believed that we, as a Nation, are not paying sufficient attention to the dangers posed by mercury to our children and, in general, to all of our citizens.

Last year, to address this need for better data, I and Senator Carper introduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act to ensure that we have the information we need to make decisions necessary to protect our people and…

My State of Maine has some of the strongest offshore wind resources in the Nation, as well as the scientific and manufacturing capacity to lead the Nation in developing new composite materials for deep water offshore wind turbines.

From talking to many experts in this field, it seems that there is a great deal of dispute...

I want to thank our witnesses today for helping us understand this complex issue.

Congress can best assure the CFATS program's success and forward momentum by passing S. 2996, the Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2010.

It was very disappointing, and it also does nothing to advance what is an important debate and legitimate disagreements over IST and other issues which reasonable people could certainly disagree on.

In 2005, as Chairman of this Committee, I held a series of hearings on chemical security.