Maria Cantwell actually said...

"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 ..."

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

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

"So out of those proposals, you can say four are--out of 77 proposals, four have made it through the process."