Kelly Ayotte actually said...

"The FDA is there to serve all of us. The FDA is there to make sure that people can be protected, but not from themselves."

"I think it would be reasonable for this committee... to put forward language that does not put every small ground fisherman in my state and the New England States out of business."

"But why can we not fund the $3.78 million of monitoring so they do not go altogether out of business?"

"I cannot believe that we would have a system where we are going to put iconic fishermen out of business."