Diana DeGette actually said...

"Would you agree that underenforcement of environmental laws is a classic example of an environmental--of environmental injustice?"

"It is called 'Protection from Cumulative Emissions and Underenforcement of Environmental Law Act.' And that is my bill."

"Do you think that this hurts the ability of the local neighbors to actually move forward in supporting their communities, when they see that the Government just doesn't even care?"

"It will leave a stain on who we are as Americans since we would be exchanging the religious freedoms of tribal people for a promise of jobs and profit offered by a foreign mining interest."