"It's clear that the monitoring is, in fact, doing what we needed, even though we don't like the results of having found a fish in Lake Calumet."
"I think the only thing that I would continue to strongly urge you to do is to continue to look at the closure of the locks until we can figure this out, in Chicago."
"We have to act as quickly as humanly possible to be able to address this."
"We must not be the generation that allowed Asian carp into the Great Lakes on our watch."
"I'm always concerned when I'm hearing--I understand the need for standards and for committees and so on, but we need to move as quickly as possible on this."
"there's a great sense of urgency about not wasting any time at all about this."
"I'd much rather be focusing on ways to redirect commercial activity, and funding that, which is much cheaper than what in the world we would do if this--if the Asian carp got into the Great Lakes."
"I mean, we can't be talking about something that has an interim report in 2012 and a final report in 2014. I mean, that's just absolutely unacceptable."
"we have to find a permanent solution as quickly as possible."
"we have to tighten up the focus on what the Army Corps is being asked to do"
"Your legislation is absolutely critical to move that study forward on a much more quick timetable."
"Senator Durbin and I and others have sent a letter to the administration asking that there be one person put in charge of coordination."