"It seems like this is an opportunistic infection, if you will."
"Wouldn't it be prudent to continue the program and conduct a study that actually compares students who use scholarships to those in the DC public schools to determine achievement effects?"
"Mr. Secretary, I know I was not in Congress when the original DC Opportunity Scholarship Program passed..."
"We can't prove a negative. We can't prove that there is going to be no 30-year effect of having a spill someplace, correct?"
"if you look at the NOAA reports, the Flower Garden Coral Reefs in the Mississippi/Texas area are actually fairly healthy."
"Instead of saying boroughs, you should have said parishes. I would have understood that completely. Let us talk English here."
"It almost seems like there is a prejudice against this process that is not based upon science."
"Then I will say that, because there is also a presumption that offshore oil and gas exploration hurts coral reefs."
"the problem isn't the rig activity, it is the absence or presence of policing."
"Now, I may interrupt, because I gathered that. And you are not from Louisiana, and I think we have the most productive fisheries in the lower 48."
"But I think what we have learned is, from the testimony, that there is more damage from tankers than there is from offshore drilling."