"Thank you for your leadership on this issue."
"You need the OPC. It is going to give you better capabilities."
"the section 1019 of WRRDA 2014 actually expanded, where it said: on the date of execution, before the date of execution, or after the date of execution."
"it seems like the Administration is totally missing that."
"I can't tell you how much I appreciate you having this hearing today. I can't tell you how much I agree with you that this is exactly how species should be managed."
"I think it is absolutely ridiculous that we still have the volumes of oil that are out there today."
"I would consider that to be somewhat of an anomaly, meaning that the operations in that particular situation were an anomaly."
"I can go through there and find over and over and over again where the Corps of Engineers flat out ignored, ignored the provision; and my 10-year-old could tell us exactly what it means."
"You see a trend of, number one, decreasing incidences, which I think is fantastic."
"To see the President hide behind environmental concerns and oil spill concerns on Keystone Pipeline... is absolutely unacceptable."
"But you do recognize that the Oil Pollution Act also has a savings clause that allows for State authorities, State laws, to continue to apply in cases when they don't--they generally conflict with Fed..."