Sherrod Brown actually said...

I would say that those bonuses are generally related to job performance over the course of a year.

protecting our national fish stocks from over-fishing is a national imperative that requires good management backed by consensus science.

I believe what the Secretary was getting at in his finding there was that this was largely a failure of procedure.

Is it common around other agencies to have that type of payment for the high stakes, supposedly 'high stakes' games?