Dana Rohrabacher: “As a young man I body-surfed there and spent a lot of time in that water. That is probably the best example of why the…”

“As a young man I body-surfed there and spent a lot of time in that water. That is probably the best example of why the decisions, environmental decisions like the cleanup of Santa Monica Bay, should be left to local people. The question is, at the local level, how pure should we make the Santa Monica Bay, because the people of the local area know that you can have it 90-percent pure and not lose any jobs, but if you push to an environmental extremist position of trying to make it 99-percent pure, hundreds of thousands of people will be thrown out of work. One of the complaints that we have had about Federal Government regulations is just that.”