Derek Kilmer actually said...

"It is a really important body of water. Unfortunately, it is sick body of water."

"I went out this summer with a group hoping not to find European green crabs in the Puget Sound, and unfortunately, we were successful in finding them."

"Their ancestral homelands are really in danger, and I would love to see us step up more than we are for these communities."

"I represent an area that used to be very timber dependent. I saw a lot of my friends' parents lose their jobs."