"Did you miss some zeros?"
"Did the House appropriate it?"
"Well, I guess I am looking for names. Who killed it?"
"The Jones Act is absolutely essential for national security. And without the Jones Act, the military cannot have a reliable and available sea--shipment by sea."
"So, instead of spending $25 million in basically what is a subsidy, a welfare check, we could just maintain the food program as it is today and ship food, keeping the ships busy, keeping the mariners ..."
"You and the administration are rapidly reducing one of the three."
"The administration's request was to reduce food and transfer the money to the military."
"The real issue is cargo."
"Well, it is our business to conduct internal warfare within the Departments, and to decide where the money goes."
"It is our business to second-guess."
"Well, this fight is not over. And we are going to stay with it."