04/28/2014
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"I want to be talking about 1,000 American-flagged ships."
"I truly believe that our regulatory morass is strangling commerce in this country, and it will strangle our entire economy if we don't get it under control."
"It appears to me that with our excess of rules that we have choked off a valuable American industry in shipping."
"You know, this just appears to me to be absolutely absurd."