Richard Blumenthal

I would also like a commitment that you will respond to the question that I've raised.

I will commit to you to making that a priority as far as bringing that to, were I to be confirmed to Commerce IG.

I would like you to give me a commitment that you will look into this issue and report back.

It's a matter of basic science.

There have been claims about unfairness and inefficiency, and both environmental and economic detrimental impacts from the current structure, as it is now implemented.

I want to ask you another question that also relates to fishing, and this one is equally, if not more, a priority and has broader reach.

The reports reaching me through a number of sources in my state, shellfish producers and others, are that one of the Nation's key contributors to the United States aquaculture industry... has been asked to work on stock assessment and…

Aquaculture is an industry of growing significance to many states, including Connecticut.

NOAA recognizes the importance of promoting aquaculture.

Supplying weapons to Iran is particularly dangerous because it's not done in a vacuum.

Blumenthal, he had got things rolling pretty good for Casey's case when I saw him in Hartford last year

It appears that ICE could and should have taken simple additional steps that might have resulted in Jacques being repatriated and therefore never given the opportunity to murder Casey Chadwick.

It destroyed shareholder value. It also gravely damaged individual lives, as we have heard today.

The idea that the pharmaceutical drug industry is a free market clearly is a fiction.

I think that codes of ethics and standards of conduct are a good line of improvement to pursue.

How do we prevent other companies from going haywire, from the profit motive, from going out of control, and, frankly, corporate greed from eclipsing social responsibility?

Thanks, Madam Chairman. Thank you for having this hearing.

I think it is a function of finding a way to help veterans find jobs, fill the need in the commercial side, and get mariners who are needed for our national security sealift purposes.

What can be done to both reform the finances and address the short-term crisis? And is that a very dire crisis literally weeks away?

I will have someone in my office follow up with you. I really appreciate you being here today.

How do you plan to address the remaining shortfalls in the system?

Is that an area where you think more research, as well as clinical treatment, is necessary?

I would appreciate that.

It's not always been the executed policy.

I thank the Committee for having this important hearing.