As a recovering Governor, I will say that in State Governments, it is not always easy to hold people accountable.
We need to find a way to do it better.
We are losing a half-billion dollars a year in landings, $2 billion a year in economic activities, and tens of thousands...
our job is oversight. Our job is to back up the work that is being done.
I ask the Senate to hold accountable the government attorneys and judges that were the source of this injustice.
editorial writers are people who enter the battlefield when the fighting is over and shoot the wounded.
But if people in Delaware really behaved egregiously, we tracked their records, tracked their performance and eventually...
there has been a little bit of discussion on this already. I want to come back and just make it clear, at least for me.
I just want to say, thanks so much for making the time to join us today and for providing really an excellent statement.
not all travel is bad. Senator Brown and I actually got to know each other on a congressional delegation trip to Afghani...
the road to improvement is always under construction.
In terms of what our responsibilities are, as Senator Brown knows certainly as well, maybe better than me, but we play a...
I think we will leave it open for the next couple of weeks.
We have been trying for years to get the Department of Defense to give us audited financials--for years.
Well, I understand, Senator Brown, when Sam Adams held forth here, they did not have a public address (PA) system, but I...
the point of this hearing has not been, as I said earlier, to adjudicate the laws of the ocean or describe what is right...
Congress needs to understand what NOAA is really spending this money for.
The other thing that we need to do and seek to do in hearing after hearing is to put a spotlight on bad behavior.
