Tom Carper

One of the best ways to figure out where to go is to find out what works and do more of that.

We have a local chapter of Captains for Clean Water on this Committee. Senator Kelly and I are both retired Navy captains. We are very interested in clean water.

We want them to feel like they have been listened to.

We like regular order.

Also to have their ideas implemented into the project is really important.

The issues along South Florida's coast with sea level rise, you cannot abandon, we cannot abandon the issue of restoration within the Everglades to deal strictly or solely with the climate concerns along the coast.

Speaking of sea level rise, as a Senator from the lowest lying State in the United States, our State is sinking, the seas around us are rising.

The environmental benefits of the Corps' ecosystem restoration portfolio, including those projects that we are talking about here today, clearly show a response to climate change through increasing resilience.

Every now and then we are fortunate to have a leader of another nation come to Washington, to Capitol Hill, and speak at a joint session of the Congress.

It is really ingenious and highly commendable.

They are now one of our top 10 trading partners in the whole country.

I think there is an acronym for that, GRR. I understand that there are some remaining construction features for the Tres Rios project, with a reevaluation of the project underway to address increased costs in the next steps.

I was born to play third base for the Detroit Tigers. They had different ideas.

We celebrated their lives.

I like to quote Mark Twain from time to time.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Bipartisan solutions are lasting solutions.

Good. That is very helpful. Thank you for that.

Our efforts to ensure that climate change is addressed appropriately.

As a recovering Governor, I approve of this message.

We said, yes, we thought we did, and we were going to do it in two phases.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are right.

I would really urge, if there is stuff you need in our offshore wind permitting reform, get it to me now.

Any serious proposal must reduce greenhouse gas emissions while upholding our Nation's bedrock environmental statutes.

If you want us to, we just might do that.