Tom Rice actually said...

"I would like to know if ours are--I just keep hearing that ours are very much more strict, and that is one of the reasons why our shipping fleet has dropped from 1,000 American-flag ships in internati..."

"Looking at the Coast Guard missions listed here, 11 statutory missions, to fully implement these--and looking, also, at this table that shows how many of these missions were met and how many weren't m..."

"We know we are not going to have these 100-percent funding levels. We know that."

"We are spending far more money than we take in, almost 40 cents on the dollar."