"We need to have a much deeper discussion."
"I would appreciate it."
"It is Congress that enacted the sequester and it is Congress that over the last several years has repeatedly diminished the Federal spending and raised much revenue."
"We are unwilling to fund the Government that we really need."
"I am sure that he and I and the members of this committee will do whatever we can to try to restore as much money as possible to the Coast Guard overall account."
"I don't think it works. I've been at this for 40 years, and I don't think it works."
"But the proposal puts that entire industry on a downhill slope to the point where it won't exist."
"Mr. Chairman, thank you for scheduling this afternoon's hearing to update the subcommittee on the progress made by the administration, the international governments, and nongovernment partners in deal..."
"Many questions come up here. I do thank all of you for your testimony and particularly for the success that you have had in dampening down the piracy, particularly in Somalia, and I suspect you will s..."
"I thought that might be the case. As a former insurance commissioner, I learned that the availability or the unavailability of insurance is a high motivator."
"But then you do not have to provide the insurance, do you, if you do not like what they are doing?"
"I happen to represent Beale, and I am mightily concerned about this, since it is contradictory to what we had intended to have happen."