"I hope that we can come up with a really strong, bipartisan consensus with some of the feedback that you have given us today."
"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."
"It is really troubling to me that they have not issued final guidance."
"Statement of Senator Ayotte."
"Not everyone wants to sit in the traffic either."
"But as of March 1, your agency has announced that you are not going to fund the at-sea monitoring."
"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."
"I do not see how their economic vitality is being taken into consideration at all here."
"So we want to talk extinction. This is extinction of fishermen."
"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."