"You bring specific industry, small business owners in and actually sit around the table with them?"
"For aquaculture communities and also fisheries in your region, do you feel like BOEM has been a good partner in hearing your concerns?"
"As an oyster farmer specifically, do you have any concerns about offshore wind development and how could it impact local aquaculture operations?"
"I am not contesting that some of the policies you see coming out of the White House are concerning on oil and gas production here domestically."
"Do you have any concerns that it could also be potentially harmful to the ecosystem?"
"I think that this administration is governing over an increase in oil and gas production while simultaneously seemingly unwilling to celebrate that which they should be celebrating."
"I would agree with you that some of their policies as I stated earlier as an example up in Alaska are the wrong calls. And I would condemn that."
"I would like to request a recorded vote."
"I urge my colleagues to support this important legislation as it will help ensure that the SBA is doing everything it can to support small businesses in rural America."
"This bill would revitalize the office so it can fulfill its obligation to rural small business owners in three main ways."
"Maine' 2nd District is the second most rural House District in America. Statewide, Maine is home to more than 151,000 small businesses accounting for 99.2 percent of all businesses in the state."