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

We have been remarkably successful, not entirely successful, remarkably successful on a wide range of issues.

I am going to be looking for consensus and implementing a lot of stuff that we have authored and enacted.

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

Through Sackett, the Supreme Court has weakened one of our bedrock environmental laws, and harms will be felt nationwide.

We are just regular guys and gals. Welcome. Thanks for that testimony, especially for your close.

Removing protection for wetlands is especially shortsighted as climate change continues to fuel more extreme weather events, which we witness almost daily.

I happen to support strongly, don't fill the void left by the Sackett decision?

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

the Sackett decision, in my view, has jeopardized nearly a half-century of progress under this bedrock environmental law.

I feel very strongly that we need to value the science.

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.

I think these concerns miss the point. We just had a radical, I think, a sweeping reduction in water protections.

I know we can't pass laws to tell water how to flow.

The Clean Water Act has lofty goals, and then it has some nonregulatory programs, and some regulatory programs.

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

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

I also disagree that Sackett means we have lost a lot of authority.

Before the Clean Water Act, our Nation's waters were subject to indiscriminate pollution and destruction.

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

We will see you on the floor later today.

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