"And so we have a responsibility in this region, but there is also a responsibility for industry."
"Help us restore our bay. Help us restore this beautiful, beautiful national treasure."
"I think that it is really clear that despite all the resources that we have put into Chesapeake Bay protection and restoration, that we haven't been as successful as we would like to have been."
"I am grateful to be here today to listen to the testimony of so many of our experts, our colleagues who, like me, share responsibility for the Chesapeake Bay."
"I have been an advocate on Bay issues for about the 25 years that I have lived in the region."
"The challenge facing the Chesapeake Bay is not one that's solved by great platitudes or ideological debates."
"The Bay is, as President Obama recently put it, a national treasure."
"I think the thing that we really need to address as we're going forward and in talking definitions and other things, is we are trying to promote or to build a new industry."
"I just urge the Congress to remember that woody biomass is a finite resource and there is truly a best use of wood out there."
"We are still struggling. We still have a lot of folks suffering in Alabama."
"I also want to thank Representative Cardoza for proposing it."