"I think it's incumbent upon everybody to have a little skin in the game, and I don't think it's too much to ask."
"It's not just one person there that weekend doing this. It's long-term."
"If I can leave you with a thought... would you mind considering that thought and bring back to the Committee at some point?"
"We get a lot of talk and not a whole lot of action."
"So for example, if a quota was reduced and therefore folks doing charters get limited out or limited in what they can--or even the size, like what we have in Alaska on some of our halibut, then those ..."
"why the public is so mad at the Federal Government in many different ways is we say something and then when the money's allocated, then it goes to somewhere else."
"we want input. So many times I get complaints--I don't know if Senator Rubio does--we put a bill down and then people say, why didn't you ask us."
"This subcommittee has been known to bring the bills forward, as we did last year on Coast Guard, in a bipartisan approach."
"Nothing much actually comes to fruition. It's very discouraging and frustrating for the local economies when nothing actually happens."
"what you want is, why you've got these regional councils set up, is to give input and help direct some of this resource."
"In Alaska we have one more element called subsistence hunters."