John E. Sununu

I will try not to belabor any of these questions.

I do not think that should be the metric within the pool of selecting those countries that are above average in the pool.

We want to emphasize the idea of self-reliance, having this be a kick start, but not something that just continues year after year with the same country, the same activity.

There seems to be a slight contradiction here, which is to say that you are setting up a challenge account where you say, 'If you meet specific criteria in 16 different categories, you become eligible for support.'

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I think what Senator Sununu was getting at is something most important, that when governments are not accountable to their people or are blatantly corrupt or exhibit continuing patterns of decisions that are harmful to their population, we…

It would seem to me that it would be your role as a leader on these issues to talk about and, in fact, to criticize any policy, any practice that was someone preventing the humanitarian effort from being completed.

I'm trying to make it easy for you, though.

Could I ask you to put together a summary of intensity, at least for a select number of countries, including the United States?

Where does the United States rate today, compared to all other countries, on intensity?

We need to strengthen our fish stocks in the Gulf of Maine to maintain the long-term viability of the Northeast fishing industry; something every fisherman knows.

The federal groundfish decision handed down two weeks ago by the U.S. District Court in the matter of Conservation Law Foundation v. Donald Evans, will be, I fear, catastrophic to the in-shore fishing industry in the state of New Hampshire…

The rigid decision of the Court and the suddenness of its implementation provides no flexibility to those who fish the Gulf of Maine waters, and will push many small boat owners into bankruptcy.

I am urging action to hopefully remedy the ill-effects of this decision.