Peter DeFazio actually said...

"If you think back to Captain Alfred Mahan and his theories, which were backed up by Teddy Roosevelt, we had to guarantee access to international markets as a maritime-dependent nation."

"Now, unfortunately, post-World War II, with the globalization--liberalization, so-called--of trade, the rise of the IMO and the chase around the world to the least regulation and the cheapest possible..."

"Now, I just--did they really spend $10 million in one city to oppose fingerprint-based background--that can't be----"

"I am--you know, I am so angry that they wouldn't show up today."