"I want to recognize your long leadership in media consolidation issues and the importance of that."
"I think it is something like between 1995 and 2008, basic services increased 122 percent, which is--you know, CPI only grew by 38 percent."
"What is the root of this, you know, perception?"
"all 25 members of the region's current congressional delegations (House and Senate, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Republican and Democrat) are on record as supporting the authorization of the Tr..."
"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 said that other sites were not practical alternatives."
"If the Administration continues to propose inadequate funding for NOAA, we are at risk of losing much as a nation."
"The Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for NOAA, while a step in the right direction, falls far short of the funding necessary."
"I think all politics are local, and you can see that the economic impact that NOAA has on communities around our country are real."
"I think you'll find that the same issues of why those recommendations weren't implemented will be the same reasons why these won't be followed up on."
"Climate change, ocean acidification, sea level rise, pollution, and overfishing threaten the health of our oceans and coastal communities, and with them, our economy."
"the Agency has basically twisted the definition of capital investment, basically to evade oversight."