Maria Cantwell actually said...

"I would say Washington and Alaska, Oregon, and California, Hawaii are all very united in our concern over the economic impacts that tsunami debris can have to our region."

"This is the chart that we had gotten from the University of Hawaii and it shows the migration of millions of tons of tsunami trash basically making a good trajectory right toward the West Coast."

"We need something much more elaborate to understand and stop this debris before it actually reaches our shores."

"So anything that threatens that coastal economy is something we are going to pay a lot of attention to."