"What a surprise. You take the raw data, you put it in a new model, you get slightly different answers."
"It is wholly arbitrary."
"What 2304 does is it allows you to manage to the science you have, not on the science you wish you had."
"The difficulty with this Committee addressing data frankly is it is not a substantive legislative problem. It is a money problem."
"I would like to thank you for this opportunity to speak today about the immediate need to pass H.R. 2304."
"Essentially the Wittman bill will allow you to do this."
"It removes the mandate to put annual catch limits in place."
"What we have in the Magnuson Act at the moment is a system that frankly the agency will be incapable of managing."
"I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Senator elect from the State of Indiana, has resigned his office as a member of the Commission for the Improvement of the Mississippi..."
"Believing that a measure for refunding the national debt is not necessarily connected with the national banking law, and that any refunding act would defeat its own object if it imperiled the national..."
"While, in my opinion, it would be unwise to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to offer to the public bonds bearing 3 1/2 per cent interest in aid of refunding, I should not d..."