"Can I ask you this, John, and then again, I apologize, our clock is ticked here, I have some other questions I will submit for the record, that you can prepare from your office that says, 'Here's what we did in that Immediate Action Working Group and then here are kind of the actions we took?'"
"the way that cost/benefit analysis works really for communities of your size and Vivian's communities, they are too small of populations"
"We can fly to the moon, put things on Mars. We can go to the bottom of the ocean. We can drill 5,000 feet under the ocean floor, but when it rains in Washington, you can not get a plane off the ground..."
"I will give you one--as I flip over to the Corps here, I will give you an example."
"Do you think that idea would be helpful?"
"if we can find the right mix, and it may be that we have to recognize, as we recently did in the piece of legislation, we changed some language"
"I would recommend, and this is always--and I know the President has a directive on tribal consultation, to make sure that Tribes are part of this equation."
"Well, like Newtok is moving, correct?"
"So the real-time forecasting, and this is very interesting what you are talking about, because I can imagine NOAA folks are just ecstatic about this kind of information that they can get their hands o..."
"I was just over the area probably now 2 weeks ago with the Secretary of Interior and we flew to the Arctic."
"As the Bering Sea warms up, and it is warmed up very rapidly in the last 30 years or so, it is essentially just thawing those coastal bluffs."