"I do not want the Securities and Exchange Commission to be the beneficiary of fines that it imposes."
"While the RFMCs are given some flexibility to tailor their approaches to management plans the one area that remains rigid is in regard to stock rebuilding."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to ask Mr. Schwaab, the 2006 National Research Council Report, which Congress mandated to be used in improving recreational data collection methods in the Magnuson Ac..."
"Do you believe that it is fair that NMFS is moving forward with forcing regional management fishery councils to implement annual catch limits while the recreational information program that was design..."
"What that means is that error is not neutral or not error, but imprecision is not neutral."
"Unfortunately, just as we are asking NOAA to do more and better stock assessments, Republicans want to cut NOAA's funding to preserve tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires."
"These bills deserve the support of this committee and swift action on the House floor."
"I thought it was a mistake to give law enforcement authority the ability to seize people's property, frankly, promiscuously."
"I would think that was a principle we would all very much want, namely, that we want to fund law enforcement by independent judgments about what we can afford."
"I support in Mr. Pallone's language the legislation saying 10 years is not an absolute hard and fast rule."
"I made the argument that we could rebuild fisheries without adhering to a completely arbitrary deadline that would hurt a fisherman's ability to put bread on the table."