I guarantee you if every single person in this room did a blind taste test, it would be 100 percent for the wild Alaska salmon.
We created, in my state, the Alaska Mariculture Task Force to help accelerate development of mariculture.
Alaska does choose to allow certain forms of aquaculture, such as salmon fishery enhancement through hatcheries.
Since 1990, finfish aquaculture has been prohibited in Alaska's state waters.
It would be good to be able to learn from this so we can be ready next time.
There seems to be a lack of reciprocity in how they operate and how we operate.
The Trump administration has pretty much put out a red line.
It's an important issue for my state and others.
It definitely should not happen with nominees to go fill senior VA positions.
Those games do not occur on this Committee.
Let us get them confirmed, let us get them going. We do not need 40 hours of debate on some of these.