Fiorina's Opening and Closing Statements

Senator BOXER KILLED more JOBS in 2008 than we could have handled, perhaps allowing jobs to have spilled into Mexico curtailing violence. The following is a report for Congress in DEC 2009 that explains that national ballast water legislation would do the same thing as tariffs. “Although estimates of the costs of ballast treatment may be imprecise and vary from vessel to
vessel, there is some general agreement on average costs.14 For example, it may cost an estimated $400,000 per vessel for modification of container/bulk vessels to use onshore ballast water treatment facilities at California ports. More generally, the cost of retrofitting vessels to treat
ballast water has been estimated at between $200,000 and $310,000 per vessel...