Reducing NOAA's coastal and ocean funding has dire economic consequences for our constituents.

The only way it will have American innovation to go into is through federal investments in innovation.

So what we are basically asking for is a restoration of money to the system that has been cut.

I appreciate your leadership in protecting the ocean side of NOAA in this budget.

America has the capital, the drive, and the creativity at a level that far surpasses any other nation in the world.

We have let this nation down, this institution, and now, we are talking about disaster recovery.

Sequestration is only a decision, and it was a decision that Congress made. They didn't have to make it.

I wish we had ability to have reviews, revisions of the law, essentially is what you need...

I have to say that walking in this building, this whole process of sequestration just infuriates me.

I hope that the committee would really focus on what we are talking about, particularly with school lunch programs and school snack programs.

If you are going to have a hiring freeze, what do you do about filling those vacancies in areas where you have a high percentage of vacancy?

The reason people didn't get access is because it is difficult--we have made it difficult to prove that you are poor.