Tom Carper: “The $7 billion Great Lakes Fishery would not exist were it not for the sea lamprey control program.”

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

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.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.

We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.