John Kerry actually said...

"All of us have joined together in trying to urge the issuance of a disaster declaration to provide holdover assistance to fishing folks."

"But what about the actual allocation? I mean, do you have an allocation--this is the catch share, so a downstream impact."

"Why is it not working?"

"And I would remind everybody here that this comes into the discretionary portion of the Federal budget, which took $1 trillion worth of cuts over the course of the last few weeks."