Tom Carper actually said...

One of the things that Senator Capito and I try to do is develop consensus on difficult issues.

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

I do think that we are locked in a circular pattern here, and that one, we need to be more thoughtful in terms of rulemaking.

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