"Thank you Chairman Rice for this opportunity to appear before your subcommittee."
"We hear on this Committee a lot about the amount of red tape and bureaucracy that hurts small businesses from developing, from growing, and I really want to make sure that we are doing everything we c..."
"it is a real serious crux issue for this country."
"we have got to get ourselves out of the way and get these infrastructure projects built"
"I think we are feeling a little bit in that regard not because of your efforts but because of ours, and infrastructure is the key to that."
"We are the greatest Nation on Earth. And to sit here and watch our industry die makes absolutely no sense to me."
"Obviously, we are not doing something right. Do you guys have any suggestions for how we can make our American commercial fleet more competitive in the world?"
"Seems like the Jones Act is--it seems like we are backing up. I mean, clearly, this is not working. What can we do? How can we make ourselves more competitive?"
"I don't think I have ever seen a more clear example of a failure of a protectionist policy, and I really don't want to sit here and continue what we are doing and watch our maritime industry disappear..."
"I would like to get our volume up."
"I think that is a very sad commentary. Are any of those going to be flagged in the United States? Any of them?"