Gary Peters actually said...

"we don't ever want to get to the point where we have to clean up."

"Senator Peters, thank you for the opportunity to testify on oil spills from pipelines in the Great Lakes."

"So you're significantly increasing both civil penalties and potentially criminal penalties for doing that?"

"I was able to get language recently passed that takes a look at the entire Great Lakes region and now classifies the entire Great Lakes region as a high-consequence area."