On the recordSeptember 4, 1996
I do not think in all those 22 years of the time that I served on that committee I ever heard a partisan observation except as sort of a lighthearted aside from one side or the other. I think we all understood no matter where we came from in the conventional political sense that what we were about was work that was far too important to be characterized by partisan exchanges and bitterness and that the things about which we were concerned transcended partisanship in every sense of the word, most particularly the sanctity of the marine environment. The critters of the oceans and the sanctity of the ocean itself have nothing whatever to do and do not give much of a darn about whether we call ourselves Republicans, Democrats, independent or vegetarians. We all are dependent upon those waters, upon the air, and upon the Earth.
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