Peter DeFazio actually said...

"Most of our development is now, by State law and State and local planning, focused on those downtown core areas, as Congressman DeFazio indicated, to avoid urban sprawl."

"But in this case, what is being recommended for Oregon, which is going to require a regulatory change which will apply nationwide, is not following the advice of that committee."

"Now, don't you--didn't Biggert-Waters require an advisory committee for mapping?"

"It appears that we would then begin to model ourselves after the rest of the country."