Frank Pallone actually said...

"Can you tell me whether the Department will wait until the guidelines have been finalized and fully considered before issuing the final PEIS?"

"I have been pushing for those recommendations to be adopted. We are not getting much help--well, any help really--from the Republicans in the majority to accomplish that."

"We should not be risking our fishing and tourism industries, sustainable industries that bring in over $45 billion each year and support half a million jobs in New Jersey alone."

"It is foolish to discuss opening new areas to offshore drilling before we have heeded the lessons of the last disaster."