Peter DeFazio actually said...

"We have to provide resources to the Coast Guard so they can mitigate the effects of climate change in their operational planning."

"The Coast Guard does not have the privilege of ignoring the significant and consequential impacts that climate change is having on our environment."

"The idiots in the Senate have been unable to approve the Law of the Sea Treaty, so, we don't have full standing to object to Russia continually extending claims further and further into the Arctic reg..."

"I think there is going to be a lot of work coming."