Roger Wicker

Our goal is to get all sides involved in working on ways in which we can accommodate private landowners and conserve species at the same time.

MARAD funds six ships that are on loan to the State Maritime Academies as training platforms for their students.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I hope that's correct. Let me ask you just briefly--and I'm imposing on the time--did the accreditation problem catch you by surprise?

Most of the problem occurred on Academy grounds, and yet your response was to stop the Sea Year, and that seems disproportionate to me.

So you dispute the preliminary 2015 and 2016 Service Academy Gender Relations Survey, which says that 73 percent occurred on Academy grounds.

The majority of the assault was taking place during the Sea Year, and I think the facts are to the contrary.

The officers aboard the commercial vessels object to the suggestion that the stand-down was somehow because a major portion of the sexual assault problem stemmed from the Sea Year program aboard commercial vessels.

I have a letter here from Paul Doell, National President of the American Maritime Officers, dated May 8, 2017.

If the traveling public wants to boycott United as a result of this outrageous incident, which you say you've corrected, they really don't have a way to boycott you, do they?

I think it says that you've got the passenger where you want him.

In many instances there's no place for me to go if I want to boycott United because of this.

Mr. Kirby, since this incident in Chicago, how has business been at United?

Well, thank you very much.

What would those applications be, an example of that?

So that is just one example of a real success story there.

This might be one of the big areas that we would go ahead and address quickly on a bipartisan basis, because there is bipartisan support for infrastructure.

It has been a bipartisan

I agree that the general concept, the idea that we need to focus more of our resources on the Asia-Pacific, was the right one.

I think the previous administration was preoccupied, it became preoccupied with other problems in the Middle East, with Russia, continuing constraints on defense spending.

I am not confident that either of those two conditions would actually be obtained.

The Commission's efforts [to promote broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas] must accurately target every area that is in need of support so that no one is left behind.

Well, let me shift briefly in the 2 minutes I have to this issue of on-dock railway access.

I hope we get an infrastructure bill. I hope you're all enormously successful because that will mean the economy is successful.

I've taken a strong position, though, against the idea of forcing the Twin 33 trailers on states.