Mark Begich actually said...

"Should we have just said whatever happened down there just happened? No, we looked at the game and reassess what we needed to do."

"I would rather see us as a country that says no to that kind of risk, let somebody else take the risk, and we'll have better fish because of it."

"government isn't very good at keeping pace with technologies as they move forward."

"the regulatory process is enormous. And the amount of agencies that have to actually sign off on it... are pretty significant."