"I don't understand how we are going to come in and make these massive investments, yet we are not going to yield any type of governance changes."
"I really struggle with us dumping--and dumping is not the right word--investing, because I was an advocate for recovery dollars for Puerto Rico."
"If I ran a government, I don't know why I would have a redundant system of something I owned, and also have an oversight board that is government, as well."
"The Federal Government under the Obama administration did not do a good job using those resources."
"Things can co-exist. They can. You can have both energy production and you can have a very productive ecosystem."
"The energy production on private lands has completely smoked that on Federal lands."
"We do need to identify these problems because it certainly is going to continue to be problematic to other disaster victims."
"I want to thank you all for being here today. I want to make sure I understand the background or impetus for this hearing and the legislative proposal."
"I represent the state of Louisiana, where we produce 80 to 90 percent of all the offshore energy in Federal waters in the United States."
"We have lost 2,000 square miles of our coast--2,000 square miles."
"If this is an unsustainable area, why are we proposing that dollars be extracted from this area and sent to other places?"