"I think the Arctic is a place we absolutely have to be represented."
"There are rich minerals below in the seabed there."
"The Coast Guard Academy is one of the finest institutions of higher learning in the country, in the world, and we certainly want to support them."
"My home State of Mississippi is especially vulnerable to natural disasters, and the memory of Hurricane Katrina still remains fresh."
"This is the very reason we're having this hearing. Thank you very much for emphasizing that."
"There are hundreds of stories like that."
"He should have turned the ship in a different direction."
"The report points that--to the fact that the captain did not use the most currently available weather information."
"The investigators were unanimous in this conclusion."
"Well, it's just an awful tragedy. And you hate to bring up these matters of human error, but we might as well talk about them."
"So would you explain that to members of the Committee and to the public who are listening to us today?"
"sequestration had not only been devastating to DoD, but it had been devastating to programs like this, that really are also very much involved in the security of Americans, safety of Americans."