Dan Sullivan

Congress's attempts to defund the program...believes that if this kind of process is going to go forward, it should have a statutory basis.

You're the original stakeholders, and I think sometimes that's forgotten with regard to the men and women and their families who have been fishing our oceans for generations.

We got people over at the Pentagon who have their head in the sand, and it needs to stop.

Russia is eating our lunch, and we are doing nothing.

I wish to first compliment my colleague from Ohio, Senator Portman, on his leadership on so many different fronts in the U.S. Senate. His leadership is nowhere more important than what he has been doing on the opioid epidemic that is…

Do you believe that the new normal is 1.5 percent, like CBO, like the Obama administration said--GDP growth of 1.5 percent for the entire future? Is that what you believe?

As to the issue on economic growth, I have been coming down to the floor in my relatively short time here and talking about growth, growth, growth, growth. I have not in 3 years--3 years--heard my colleagues on the other side of the aisle…

If you superimpose my state on the Lower 48, you will see Ketchikan, Alaska would be right around where St. Petersburg, Florida is.

Will you commit to helping enhance the weather reporting capabilities in Alaska, if confirmed?

Alaska has 3 percent of the weather capability found in the Lower 48. This is a serious safety concern for my constituents.

I think you have done an outstanding job in this hearing today, and you are very well qualified.

I have appreciated Secretary Ross' emphasis on trying to do something about the seafood trade deficit.

If confirmed, Mr. Myers would serve as the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.

I want to thank him again for his desire to serve our country.

Will you work with this Committee to aggressively reduce the charting backlog and increase the use of public-private partnerships to achieve this goal in terms of upgrading our hydrographic surveying around the country?

To be the most effective and cost effective to the taxpayer, NOAA staff and assets who work solely on Alaska issues must be in Alaska.

I would like your commitment to help to restore the agency's presence as appropriate, when they are working on Alaska issues, to be in Alaska.

Well, listen, I want to thank all the witnesses again for your testimony, for flying here to Washington to present on really, as Senator Peters mentioned, just--these are important anecdotes, more broadly speaking, of the daily heroism…

Was that an alternative for you that day?

What's it like to get in a boat when the wind is gusting at 70 miles an hour?

So her notion in 2013 that there was an alternative is not accurate?

I think it's very unconvincing that there are, from your testimony.

I think you see Senator Peters and I were highly motivated to get the Coast Guard authorization bill voted on.

I think it's just outrageous that we've spent 30 years trying to deal with this.

That can bring literally hundreds of American citizens peace of mind that most Americans wake up, and when they see 70-mile-an-hour winds, don't have--their first thought doesn't--being, 'Oh, my goodness, I hope my son doesn't break his…