The fiscal year 2013 budget includes $8 million to start a survey and design process for acquiring a new Polar icebreaker.

I urge this committee to fund those initiatives that support a trade policy that promotes exporting our goods and not exporting our jobs overseas.

I urge you to fully support programs that are focused on boosting manufacturing and increasing exports.

America's future is dependent on us getting our investments right in this budget.

We must turn this decline around by investing in manufacturing and boosting exports, both of which create jobs for Americans.

Boosting manufacturing is a key part of rebuilding the middle class by providing a source of good-paying jobs.

I fully support the president's goal to double our exports between 2010 and 2015 and urge this committee to support these initiatives.

I fully support the President's goal to double our exports between 2010 and 2015, and I urge this Committee to support these initiatives.

Does the Coast Guard have any history of examining these vessels for any reason, these particular vessels?

I think that is why for U.S. viewers of news on this particular case, we are in such shock hearing about stories of this particular captain.

Is that process by invite only, or is there any formal role in this case because there are U.S. citizens involved?