Tom Carper actually said...

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

I think we have been locked in a bit of a cycle and not thinking as creatively as we can in the rulemaking process.

I think that is really important that we understand, and we dig a little deeper.

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