Robert Casey actually said...

"Europe has clearly proven that austerity was the wrong policy to pursue during a recession."

"If we can't access rare earth materials on the floor of the sea, we are going to be put at a significant competitive disadvantage."

"What impact has the failure to ratify had on our ability to influence the actions on the Continental Shelf Commission and the international seabed activity?"

"This is a vitally important issue, and we are spending time on a subject matter that I think we sometimes don't do enough on in Washington."