"We are salmon people... That is who we are from the salmon in Puget Sound."
"I would love for you to work with us on the shrimping industry."
"Their decisions hurt anglers, confuse anglers, and are harmful to the local economy."
"I would love for us to come up with a way to save our shrimping industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Alabama, Mississippi, obviously."
"I am concerned that NOAA is using the wrong data and issuing conflicting rules. Their decisions hurt anglers, confuse anglers, and are harmful to the local economy."
"As you know, the Biden administration has canceled the three remaining leases in the Gulf, lease sales on the offshore 5-year plan that expired June 30, 2022."
"It just amazes me how we will buy Russian oil, which is much dirtier, and it has to cost more to actually get it here."
"So the taxpayers are paying to upgrade something that was supposed to work originally. That makes a lot of sense. I have been in business for years; trust me, that makes no sense in my mind. Zero."
"They're overpromised, underdelivered, over cost. It all falls in the same category."
"I feel like I'm going to the refrigerator and I'm pulling out a jug of milk and I pour a glassful of it and it's all clabbered."
"We have to be careful. In our bid process, when we're talking about the lives of our airmen here and now, we are going to buy the cheapest product to put them in."
"I expect a product that works 100 percent of the time."