Tom Carper actually said...

"I think it is a critically important piece."

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

"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, a..."

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