Sam Graves actually said...

"I would like to hear a commitment from you that we are going to figure out how to work through this and develop an interim strategy."

"I think that there is just complete support among the members of this committee about our strong concerns about the lack of icebreaking capability in the United States compared to other Arctic nations..."

"If there were an incident up there, we have already seen Russian aggression up in the Arctic area. Their capabilities, if I remember right, are--what is it?--40 times more than we have in the United S..."

"We need to address the very real affordability concerns raised by the communities in a way that does not weaken the Clean Water Act protections."