This is the Environment Committee and not the anti-environment committee.

If we start taking streams out of this regulatory reach, if we start taking waters out, people can dump their sewage in there without any type of permit.

My amendment ensures that the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the EPA retain their authority to protect our Nation's drinking water supply.

The EPA estimates that up to 3.5 million people fall ill from swimming in waters contaminated by sanitary sewer overflows every year.

Let us not paint Gina McCarthy with this brush or anybody else. It is a disgrace to do it. It is awful to do it. It is wrong to do it.

I think a child in Arkansas, Alaska, California, Maryland or any one of our States deserves to be protected.

I feel for those people who come to work every day whether it is the Army Corps or the EPA and come there for the right reasons, to do the right thing, to protect drinking water, to protect the vulnerable populations.

If you oppose increasing pollution in our Nation's waterways and if you oppose putting greater burdens on the States, I urge a yes vote on this amendment.

I hope we can all agree the EPA and the Corps should retain the authority to ensure that our drinking water supply is safe and clean.

We are putting the lives of our people in danger.

This bill rips the heart out of the rule and frankly, out of the Clean Water Act.

Elections have consequences.