Thomas R. Carper: “The President's budget request includes just over $2 billion for the Fish and Wildlife Service, $2 billion.”

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

I think that's really disgraceful, and it's unacceptable that the local DC courts have vacancies that last years because the Senate fails to act in a timely way.

I want to thank our members for being here today.