Dan Newhouse actually said...

"Citizen lawsuits were intended to put citizens in place of the regulators if the regulators failed to do their jobs."

"To help address the issue, Congressman Newhouse introduced the Farm Regulatory Certainty Act, which now has 65 bipartisan cosponsors in the House."

"The goal of environmental rules should be to assist ag producers to improve nutrient management and reduce the environmental footprint, not to subject them to lawsuits that threaten to put them out of..."

"I thank my colleagues for being here today to talk about their legislation."