Tom Carper actually said...

"I believe--and I know that my colleagues believe--that funding has got to be part of the conversation."

"Yet, in recent years, Congress has underfunded the Endangered Species Act, and the draft legislation that we are holding this hearing on today does not provide a meaningful funding solution for specie..."

"I am not fully convinced that a similar process is possible right now in Washington, DC."

"I think in the long term we move to a vehicle miles traveled approach."