Maria Cantwell actually said...

"Relegating our Nation's preeminent ocean-related agencies to the back bench is part of what has gotten us where we are today."

"Isn't the issue that we have lack of protocols or standards in place to evaluate technology?"

"What's at stake for the country and for the Gulf Region and for the people who live there and have to work there is losing their livelihoods and we are not helping them in a way that they deserve, in ..."

"It's not really a guess. I mean, we're not sitting here going to guess about what's the shape of the next catastrophe."