"Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And good morning, Admiral Zukunft. It's great to see you here."
"Back in March, I was part of a bipartisan group of Senators that prevented the administration from cutting the Coast Guard's budget by $1.3 billion."
"I will go on the record to say that the Coast Guard is not semper paratus for a major pipeline oil spill in the Greater Lakes."
"I have developed plans for a Center of Excellence on Oil in Freshwater."
"This is an incredibly important topic, and I think it angers most folks as they hear about this incident."
"So we have to worry about this the rest of our lives."
"To me, what we need to do is, from an incentives standpoint, is if you're giving information of mine, and I did not ask to have that information given..."
"There needs to be some strong liability."
"We cannot tolerate it as the United States."
"I am concerned that this Administration has failed to give these incidents the full weight and the attention that they certainly deserve."
"If confirmed, will you commit to studying this issue and include the perspective of America's ethnic and religious minorities in that assessment as you are moving forward?"