Maria Cantwell

Why do it if it will devastate the salmon runs?

I do not think that we can be too aggressive in saying that this is a very, very bad idea.

I think the verdict after decades is clear that good management of fisheries produces the greatest results.

We're sending a letter from many of my colleagues, asking for hearings on this.

This is not what we expect the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to do. We expect them to try to protect the environment.

Mr. Pruitt is wasting taxpayer dollars. He's wasting money that a process took place, eight hearings, lots of scientific review, that basically said, why I consider something that you know is too dangerous.

It's appalling. And I can tell you that there are fisherman all up and down the west coast, from Alaska all the way to California, who count on these fisheries for their jobs.

The taxpayers of America demand that we have somebody in the federal agency that is supposed to protect the environment, to be a fair process.

I'm amazed. I found out from your story that they actually had an agreement, the minute he walked out of his office.

I think I would like to continue with my colleague's discussion on ag.

We do want a functioning bank, and we do think it is important to have them functioning at all levels of the financing that they can provide.

I think the administration is taking the attitude that there will be winners and losers, and that is not the attitude that we in Washington want to see.

I am very convinced that these three gentlemen represent a huge opportunity for the United States of America.

Well, I feel like if I cannot convince a guy who had a TV show called The Apprentice to be for apprenticeships, then I do not know what I can convince him of.

I hope we make the right decisions here.

I hope that today with the President's visit he will make a full declaration of emergency for the entire island.

The TSA Modernization Act would give airports the ability to train and deploy canine teams.

The bill lays out what I believe is a strong framework for TSA to continue modernization and technology procedures.

I was also glad for the opportunity to discuss the TSA Modernization bill, which was just introduced.

Thank you for having this important hearing about improving security in the aviation system.

I appreciate the Senator's comments, and as Ranking Member on the Oversight Committee of Interior, I can just tell you how critically important it is that we use every resource that we have to help Puerto Rico right now.

So we need our military to be there to help clean those roads, to get them unblocked, to get people to be able to deliver the products that are arriving.

I, too, want to start with mentioning the crisis in Puerto Rico and how much we need to continue to be vigilant on the help and assistance in Puerto Rico.

In general, States would not have substantially additional flexibility under the per-capita cap.

If you cut the innovation out in Graham-Cassidy that already exists for State flexibility, then you are going to put us even further behind in achieving some of these savings.