I think it's vital that we have economics factored into every decision that we make.

in the Senate, it's Foreign Relations; in the House it's Foreign Affairs.

If we had a little more flexibility to rebuild the stock, say based on stock abundance rather than arbitrary timeframes and arbitrary numbers of fish or pounds, it would give us greater flexibility.

Wouldn't it make more sense to give your council some reasonable latitude to deal with rebuilding stocks for which the 10-year time-frame simply doesn't make sense?

We hope to get that season announcement out by the end of this calendar year, giving fishermen many months notice.

As you know, it has become a common practice for the administration to divert in their annual budget Saltonstall-Kennedy funds received by NOAA away from the authorized uses and into the agency's operational and research fund.

I believe the Caribbean Council, who is represented here today, has never had a stock assessment ever.

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Mr. President, we have all now been aware over the last few days in the news about the problems being faced with the Web site upon which people are supposed to go in order to sign up to be on one of these exchanges. That is important…

Mr. President, I do not intend to offer another motion since the objection has been heard. I do want to point out a couple of things. First of all, this notion that ObamaCare is the law--it is true it is the law. It was passed by Congress…

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