This is a matter of clear national interest that has had a strong bipartisan element.
the reflex is, 'Let's say no.' The reflex is, 'Let's not have a catch.'
I wish it wasn't on this point--mainly that there is a pretty complete sense on the part of the fishermen in Massachusetts that they face a ...
I think the catch is the essential issue.
Your testimony cherry-picks what looks good and leaves out what's not good, and that's not building trust.
We had a bipartisan agreement--Senator Snowe and others in the Senate, Senator Brown, Senator Kerry.
we're not talking about permanently fouling anything. We're not talking about people dying from bad air or being poisoned by bad water.
That's one of the--what I plan to do--and I hope we can get this--is to amend that 10-year thing.
we plucked this arbitrary 10-year number out of the air and put it into the statute.
Sarbanes-Oxley is a great confidence builder.
I agree that we should be moving in a direction of reducing unnecessary regulation, particularly on smaller entities.