08/11/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"Senator Snowe and I and Senator Lautenberg, along with 20 of our colleagues, are calling for Fiscal Year 2011 funding for ocean acidification and monitoring and research."
"We are not just damaging the ocean's ecosystem, we are threatening its very foundation."
"we have a lot of diving in the Northwest, although people don't believe that, because they think it's dark and cold waters"
"We simply cannot leave the future of our oceans and their valuable resources to chance."