Richard Blumenthal

I was deeply disappointed by the guidance issued yesterday by NHTSA, which struck me as anemic, in effect, a giveaway to the industry.

Yes, we're doing aquaculture in Connecticut as well.

Well, if the Chairman--I'm already over my time, so the Chairman has a right to cut both of us off at any time.

I raised this issue of fishing quotas with Wilbur Ross at his confirmation hearing, and he stressed his commitment to ensure that quotas, 'are allocated properly.'

The Magnuson-Stevens Act... requires the Department of Commerce to ensure fishery management plans adhere to national standards.

We're dealing with a system that essentially is broken.

Everybody I think knows that climate change is having an effect on our fish populations, particularly where the fish live.

We must protect our fisheries for future generations.

That's a central question, Anderson, and it remains in my view, unanswered. That's why we will need to hear from Donald Trump and it should be in public and under oath and the American people can judge his credibility in that forum as can…

The Air Force One statement is very, very important about that June 9th meeting, and the CNN reporting today about Mueller asking questions of White House staff is highly significant.

The principal e-mail, leading to the meeting, led Donald Trump Jr. to think he would receive incriminating evidence.

The accounts or explanation of this June 9th meeting have changed and evolved over time.

The question of possible perjury and violation of statute that prohibit material false statements to a Congressional committee and other government officials is very relevant here.

The interview today left as many questions unanswered as it did answered. In fact, it raised more questions than it answered.

I think it's important to realize that this program is paid for by communications consumers.

I don't know anyone who's in favor of waste, fraud, and abuse.

If we're really trying to reach the hardest-to-reach people... we can't put an arbitrary, artificial limit.

All of us are watching with horror and heartbreak the recovery in the Gulf Coast from Harvey...

Are these exorbitant increases in premiums fair and justified, or are they simply a way for insurance companies to reduce their liability?

It needs to be a really urgent issue.

Thirty-five major insurers have not settled.

I will take action to support the efforts in the courts more vigorously than we have before because, as I say, I have lost patience with FEMA, with other sources of recourse.

I want to commend Commissioner Kevin McCarty, of Florida, and your colleagues who have joined in the Task Force, as well as, of course, 60 Minutes for exposing this fraud.

I would respectfully suggest that criminal authorities ought to have a real interest in it.

When one of your colleagues, Mr. McCarty was asked about this practice, he said he would release, quote, the hounds of hell on these insurers because, in effect, they were failing to pay benefits to beneficiaries, and that misconduct, in…