We are just regular guys and gals. Welcome. Thanks for that testimony, especially for your close.

I can understand why this circumstance they wouldn't meet. I can understand that.

this battle, Erin, between democracy and autocracy will be the defining battle of this century.

One of the things that Senator Capito and I try to do is develop consensus on difficult issues.

Thanks to champions like Senator Ed Muskie, a Democrat from Maine, ... Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972.

I agreed to allow about 20 -- up to 20 was the president's phrasing -- humanitarian trucks into Gaza.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court failed to recognize this link in May of this year when the conservative majority upended more than four decades of agency practice and precedent based on the original intent of the law.

Before the Clean Water Act, our Nation's waters were subject to indiscriminate pollution and destruction.

We should think long and hard before eliminating protections for more than half of our wetlands.

I think it is a moral issue, and it is something that we have a moral imperative to make sure we get it right.

As a matter of history, we have heard that this decision reverses over four decades of clean water implementation.

We will see you on the floor later today.

As a matter of impacts, we have heard that the loss of protections for over half of our Nation's remaining wetlands and millions of miles of streams will lead to more flooding, more polluted waters, and unfortunately, harm to wildlife.

I happen to support strongly, don't fill the void left by the Sackett decision?

I think these concerns miss the point. We just had a radical, I think, a sweeping reduction in water protections.

he is going to be even more emphatic about that than before.

The president making a decision late this afternoon, huddling with his national security team, his secretary of state, as they tried to assess information about that hospital blast.

the President will stay in close contact with these leaders that he is no longer going to see in person.