"Let's get on with the hearing. Without objection, my testimony will be in the record."
"We can avoid that, I think, by working together here."
"I will bet they have screwed up before and I will bet we have hired the same folks that screwed up before to do another screwup."
"If you have a system in place to improve the review and oversight not only of the work you--that the Coast Guard is doing, but also of the various organizations to whom you have assigned responsibilit..."
"The chairman was pushing the point, I think correctly, that you ought to be using the same system as the Department of Defense."
"I intend to continue talking about this until we do get a new start, or maybe we will just get ourselves something called an earmark."
"The disaster supplemental has a very special opportunity for certain parts of the Nation."
"If you are not willing to do that, and if you are not active--and I hope you would be very, very aggressive at this--it will move us towards more cargo, rather than less."
"Is there a timeframe in which that letter of nonavailability is applicable, or is it just available and then goes on for an unlimited period of time?"
"I couldn't agree with you more on your point about the Jones Act and a cornerstone."
"If just 5 percent of that were on American-built ships, we are talking some seven ships."