"A question of such deep economic, societal, political significance should only be addressed by Congress."
"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."
"Hell no. Hell no. Not a chance."
"that legislation actually helps to focus the NEPA process on the environment rather than all of these other ancillary things."
"It puts in a timeline of 2 years for an environmental impact statement, 1 year for an environmental assessment."
"those comments fundamentally misrepresented what was in that legislation."
"Come up with a plan, practice it, and try it. You have to."
"when Jimmy Carter was President, you had 1 year under his regulatory guidance to get through the NEPA process."
"What Mr. Rouzer is trying to do is he is trying to simply take a resource and prioritize it."
"The program is established to provide for those individuals to buy that, and then also support the wetland restoration and reclamation of wetlands across this country."
"I appreciate all of you all being here today, but I will also tell you that in a previous life I have done more restoration work than every single one of you combined times 100."