"That is sort of instinctively troubling, is it not?"
"So would your agent in Amsterdam----"
"How many people were recommended for the watchlist the way he was by our embassy that were not added to the watchlist?"
"I understand. This was a regular routine process that----"
"It would have been a very large number eligible to come in."
"As a Senator from a Great Lakes State, I have seen up close the consequences of allowing aquatic invasive species to enter our waters."
"We simply are asking the committee, subcommittee then committee in the Senate and Congress then to do is to make sure that the bighead variety of the Asian carp is prohibited."
"I commend a remark of President George H.W. Bush while making a donation in the Oval Office during Desert Storm."
"The best chance that we have against invasive species is prevention."
"One request is that not just my statement, but that a letter from the Governor of the State of Michigan to the Attorney General of the State of Michigan be incorporated into the record."
"Limiting the movement of live bighead carp will lower the risk of an introduction of these fish into the Great Lakes."