GLOUCESTER, MA – July 16, 2010 – U.S. Sen. Scott Brown Friday toured the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction — Exhibit A in an Inspector General's critical study of regulatory excesses — and, after an informal conversation on the buying floor with two dozen fishermen, pledged to organize hard-edged congressional hearings into how the police and legal offices went so badly off track.
"I will speak to Sen. (John) Kerry, Congressman Tierney and Barney Frank and force some hearings," said Brown who was making his first fact-finding trip to the nation's oldest fishing port since winning the seat in January in a special election to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the fishermen's all-time favorite.
The visit was organized by state Sen. Bruce Tarr, who sat next to Brown in the Senate chamber on Beacon Hill for four years.
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