So you are talking about additions to Mr. Boustany's proposal in terms of tightening of the teeth?
I would say Washington and Alaska, Oregon, and California, Hawaii are all very united in our concern over the economic i...
I think the jury is still out. We have been doing a tremendous amount of work trying to locate any of the debris that wo...
I guarantee you we will get to the bottom of it because we definitely believe that academics in the Northwest and perhap...
So, Mr. Chairman, I feel like you do, that we are not getting the answers that we need.
The notion that states are going to be left to respond is just not what we are going to do to protect our coastal commun...
Well, I think just with what happened with Deepwater Horizon, people wanted answers about what the impacts were going to...
Well, Mr. Kennedy, I am definitely going to react when thousands of cans of hazardous materials wash ashore and they hav...
We must work together to find solutions to this growing problem.
So anything that threatens that coastal economy is something we are going to pay a lot of attention to.
We need something much more elaborate to understand and stop this debris before it actually reaches our shores.
This is the chart that we had gotten from the University of Hawaii and it shows the migration of millions of tons of tsu...
I am glad you asked that question, because I wanted to reiterate that it is not that you got out over your skis.
This brings me to the point--from your first to final communication with Rialto, the first one that you got, was it a le...
This topic is incredibly important, so important that I am here even though this isn't actually my committee.
the FDIC issued Rialto a 10-year, over $600 million loan at zero percent interest.
In this 'sweetheart deal' is what comes to mind--and my colleague uses the same term--Rialto was allowed to pay 8 cents,...
What I do know is that the fallout resulted in destroyed businesses, bankruptcies, and the loss of livelihoods for folks...
