"I think these concerns miss the point. We just had a radical, I think, a sweeping reduction in water protections."
"I happen to support strongly, don't fill the void left by the Sackett decision?"
"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."
"We have been remarkably successful, not entirely successful, remarkably successful on a wide range of issues."
"The Clean Water Act has lofty goals, and then it has some nonregulatory programs, and some regulatory programs."
"One of the things that Senator Capito and I try to do is develop consensus on difficult issues."
"Businesses need certainty and predictability."
"I am going to be looking for consensus and implementing a lot of stuff that we have authored and enacted."
"I think we have been locked in a bit of a cycle and not thinking as creatively as we can in the rulemaking process."
"I feel very strongly that we need to value the science."
"I think that is really important that we understand, and we dig a little deeper."
"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."