Mark Begich actually said...

"oil and gas development is important, but in the sense of shipping, the amount of movement of ships in the Arctic and the Bering Sea is increasing at a dramatic pace"

"Sequestration is an issue for all of us, and the Coast Guard, particularly District 17, is working hard to figure out how best to manage the risks and the impacts of sequestration."

"Do you feel like 2014, again, anticipating that Shell will be back in the waters, as well as potentially Conoco Phillips, that you are prepared even under the sequestration levels that we are at, or i..."

"the timetable of how you do this permitting is critical, because you can literally be off a few months and change a year or a year-and-a-half of development"