"The far majority of projects carried out across the country today don't have to go through NEPA analysis."
"Our road projects today take somewhere around 7 years to go through a NEPA analysis."
"We have seen this gross expansion of really procedure."
"So, let me be very clear because I want to challenge that statement. That is very, very concerning for me to hear you say that."
"Let me let me say it again. There is no one on this Committee that wants to go out there and trash an endangered species."
"However, if NOAA insists on moving forward with this profoundly ill-conceived proposal, Congress must act to protect Americans and their livelihoods."
"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 are technologies that exist today, we have done it with sharks, where we do real-time monitoring."
"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."