Alan Lowenthal actually said...

"One of the greatest things about NEPA, in my opinion, is that it gives ordinary Americans a tool to weigh in on projects that can affect them, environmentally, economically, and culturally."

"Unfortunately, many of the reforms that we are discussing today would cut out these very important voices of my constituents, the ones that need NEPA the most, potentially."

"How sad this is for the residents of Puerto Rico, how things in terms of their perspective have moved slowly."

"I would like to know from the--if there are these vulnerabilities, not just for the large ones, and the large ones were saying we will live. We don't know how the smaller ones that were impacted are a..."