Olympia Snowe actually said...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you very much for allowing me to go first.

If we don't do that, everything else that we think matters about the ocean is over.

Ocean policy starts on land. It starts in St. Louis and the decisions that are made on the Mississippi River.

In Louisiana, the dead zone and so on has been a major conversation here, and we have made efforts concerning dead zones and hypoxia.