Garret Graves actually said...

"I think it is really important that you engage the private boating community to understand the characteristics and how they would respond to a proposed rule like that."

"There is no one on this Committee that wants to go out there and trash whale populations. There is no one. But what we want to do is we want to find realistic solutions."

"If there is a job lost over this rule, it should be the jobs of the people at NOAA that are proposing the rule."

"My concern is that you had people who put this thing together that are not boaters, they are not in a boat, not on a boat, and don't understand this issue."