Bruce Westerman actually said...

"Active management plus using wood materials, overall, is a bigger carbon synch, better for the environment than just a hands-off approach to management."

"I think southerners should be given more minutes. I think we are being discriminated against because of our slow cadence in speaking."

"Overall, the purpose of my bill is to update a 45-year-old law to protect the Endangered Species Act from the current abuse it receives."

"I have found that it was a highly partisan Act, highly partisan piece of legislation that was passed back in the early 1970s."