03/04/2009
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"Given the tightness of your budget, and that's being mild, the idea of generating $20 million to do something that, frankly, could be done as well, and I would argue better, by simply moving the ship ..."
"I would ask you to avoid cuts in the future, but also to look at ways that we can invest in a partnership through the labs with the fishing men and women and the fishing industry, not just in Rhode Is..."
"I would just ask you to seriously consider the option of not taking the ship out of Narragansett Bay and spending $20 million for it elsewhere but spending very little and simply transferring it acros..."
"In this budget EPA is proposing to eliminate the Beach Act Grant Program."