Richard Blumenthal

This cash flow ought to be priority number one.

I respectfully suggest that maybe you can ask your organizations whether they should take a position, and that they should.

When we talk about the effectiveness of TSA, we're really talking about what it does with the resources that it has.

Congress acquiesced to the airlines' request--maybe I should say demands--to eliminate their responsibility to contribute about $400 million.

Do you agree that the airlines themselves ought to pay for a portion of TSA's costs?

The Trump Administration's budget would cut funding to NOAA by 16 percent, including $250 million in coastal research programs.

I am concerned with the serious safety concerns surrounding PHMSA's inability to get moving on its pending rulemakings.

It would also be counter to our safety mission, as it would cruelly and unfairly have us pit vulnerable populations against each other when it comes to making safety decisions.

To voluntarily follow it would lead to poor public policy decisions by ignoring the many necessary benefits provided by consumer protections that save lives and protect all of America's families.

This Executive Order does not apply to independent agencies, including the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

I have urged portable generator manufacturers to introduce carbon monoxide shut-off technology as quickly as they can.

I would respectfully request that you address this issue with the urgency that I think is required here.

People are dying as a result of these generators through no fault of their own.

And you are committed to fully funding the research necessary to get to the bottom of these questions. Correct?

The important point is I would like for your commitment that the CPSC will continue to fully fund and support this research.

I would like you to study it before you are confirmed for me to vote for you. I need to know what your views are on that issue.

I am concerned that by enforcing regulations on only one part of the world's seafood supply, the market is really placed at-risk as a result of fraudulent and illegal activity by leaving space for wrongdoing and perpetrators of seafood…

Thank you all for your willingness to serve.

I thank you, by the way, in the meantime for the work that is being done on the Wi-Fi Internet connections, which is very important there and at VA facilities around the country.

I want to just give a shout-out to the very dedicated men and women who work for the VA in Connecticut.

I hope I can be generous in pushing West Haven to a higher level on the list.

I would be remiss if I did not ask you about the West Haven veterans facility.

Now is the test of his commitment, and I think that applies to issues like the Veterans Crisis Line.

I thought it was wrong that we were not providing access, we are letting them out there.

I think that the knowledge about them is also lacking.