Tom Carper

Additional marsh, forest, and beach restoration activities will benefit all types of species, including birds, reptiles, fish, and mammals.

Thank you for the invitation, Mr. Chairman.

It is my hope that we can come together in a bipartisan way to ensure that those tasked with wildlife conservation, recovery, and management have the tools necessary to preserve our Country's wildlife heritage.

I have also placed a priority on reauthorizing the Endangered Species Act, which has not been significantly updated since 1988, 30 years ago.

This legislation would authorize funding for the program for the first time since 2011 at $100 million a year.

I support robust funding for wildlife conservation at the State and Federal levels, but I believe we must be mindful of where the money is coming from and what other priorities exist for these same resources.

The idea that folks focused on the Northern Triangle--Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador--would like to get out of there and apply for asylum, there is legislation that has been introduced--I am co-sponsor and you may be as well--that would…

President Trump appears determined to continue to implement what I think are ill-considered, maybe legally questionable immigration policies that use scarce Federal resources without making us any safer.

I think people have to have the expectations that their property and their safety is well cared for in those locations, and then you have to have economic opportunity and hope in those locations as well.

I think it really makes sense, if you look at what has happened in Colombia, 20 years, Colombia has actually turned the country around and got people not trying to get out of there to come up here.

Given what they face in terms of danger and lack of opportunity and hope, we would be tempted to pull out and release their kids and their families to a safer place.

I think we basically agreed that the reason why is because, in Mexico, there is more hope, more opportunity.

I will yield one more minute to the Senator.

The backstops and incentives provided by the Federal Endangered Species Act are absolutely critical.

I want to underscore the importance of the strong Federal role in the recovery of the Delmarva fox squirrel.

The delisting was a shared success among the States, the Service, and all parties that participated in recovery actions.

We know that the Fish and Wildlife Service can do more for species with additional financial resources.

I would call it a labor of love.

Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts.

If the people know the truth, they will not make a mistake.

It ain't what people don't know that bothers me. It's what they know for sure that just ain't so.

We better get our heads into the game.

I think the greatest threat perhaps to our homeland... is the fact that our planet is getting warmer.

As you know, Madam Secretary, they have lived in too many cases lives of misery, and we are complicit in that misery because of our addiction to narcotics.

Do not hesitate to come to us early. Do not come to us late.