"Ellicott® is a fine company which represents what our Administration's economic and export efforts are all about ... Ellicott® has been able to hire new workers... and is doing well.  That is very important."
U.S. President Bill Clinton
at the White House,
August 1994

"Thanks to all the people at Ellicott® for their support of NAFTA."
Remarks by U.S. Vice President Al Gore during the signing of the NAFTA treaty, December 1993.

"I have seen Ellicott®'s equipment, met with their people, both executives and workers, and can highly recommend them as a first class organization, with the latest technology in dredging equipment."
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Ron Brown, 1994