Ed Markey

The chemical sector represents the best of American technological might.

The issues that you are working on and leading on are going to largely determine the relationship between the American people and their environment; the safety of it, the security of it.

Thank you, Senator Feingold, for all of your excellent work.

I think it is the kind of thing that could really enjoy and has enjoyed bipartisan support here and I know that it could be successful.

We admire your acting, but we admire your activism even more, Ben.

I think it is imperative that we pass this treaty, that we pass all the treaties, and we do so this year.

That is a pretty small investment for the United States to make in something that will serve the interests of business.

The empirical data on the extent of human trafficking is as hard to pin down as the data on the extent of illegal fishing.

Finally, the United States is going to be a cop on the beat enforcing these laws.

Human trafficking is fundamentally a human rights issue.

If we can eliminate the high piracy at sea our fishermen will benefit in price on the Japanese market.

You would save the species, because undocumented fish... management has to make decisions.

The choice is clear. We can support U.S. fishermen and coastal communities or we can continue to allow pirates and international criminals to profit from the illicit trade in IUU Russian crab.

We need to level the playing field in order to make sure that we have an equal footing in the marketplace.

It is going to go a long way toward our ability to be able to move this treaty through the committee and out onto the Senate floor.

The committee will reconvene and the Chair will recognize himself for a round of questions.

Thank the members of the committee for their support in passing the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014.

I strongly urge the U.S. Senate to demonstrate leadership and immediately ratify and implement the Port State Measures Agreement.

We strongly encourage this committee and the entire Senate to approve the Agreement as soon as possible.

We appreciate your leadership, Senator Murkowski, on this set of critical issues, and we intend on acting.

American fishermen and especially Massachusetts fishermen have had enough of IUU fishing.

Thank you, Admiral, very much. Again, we thank all of the witnesses.

The coal under our Federal public lands is a tremendously valuable asset that belongs to the American people. For nearly my entire career in Congress, I have been working to ensure that we do not shortchange taxpayers by giving this asset…

If they build 10 new nuclear power plants, it would be a vast enrichment program they would have to have.

I think it is important that we get much more frequent briefings.