Tom Carper actually said...

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.

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

As a matter of science, we have heard that wetlands and more than a million miles of streams are inextricably linked to downstream water qua...