Peter DeFazio actually said...

"I have said all along that I believe the Act is fundamentally sound."

"Having held a meeting on the coast of my district recently, a meeting with fishermen, they expressed a lot of concern about some proposed wind and wave energy off the coast."

"if we say let's move and mandate that we move ahead with electronic monitoring, but say it can't be used for enforcement, that doesn't seem to me that that is going to meet the objectives here."

"We can't do it with fairy dust. We have got to do it with some practical, commonsense means on how we are going to invest in every region of America."