Maria Cantwell actually said...

People underestimate what our ocean's economy really does mean to our U.S. economy.

We also learned that morning that the earthquake generated a tsunami. And we were lucky that this time--because the tsunamis were minimal.

Now I'd like to turn it over to Senator Snowe for her opening statement.

I wanted to ask you about that, because in the same day that you say that there hasn't been a decision, in the newspaper a NOAA official sai...