Ted Stevens: “I'd like to go into a classified discussion on those in terms of their interoperability and vulnerability.”

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

The NALEMP annual appropriation was first drafted in 1993 by Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Daniel Inouye.

It is the wrong mine for the wrong place.