Tom Carper

I cannot support it.

Allowing them to import their trophies seems reasonable to me, particularly since import fees fund necessary polar bear conservation measures.

I applaud the Senator from Illinois for good work on this. Pleased to be able to support you.

I want to thank you for your efforts to produce a bipartisan bill and for everyone who has worked on this to get us here to this point today.

I must respectfully reaffirm my concern with the provision in this bill that removes Endangered Species Act protection for gray wolves and prohibits judicial review in the Great Lakes and in Wyoming.

I just want to take a moment just to applaud Ben Cardin for his continued work and commitment to cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.

I urge my colleagues to stand with the 50+ environmental and sportsmen's organizations and constituents that they represent who want further conservation efforts in this country.

Delaware is the lowest lying State in America, and we see the vestiges of sea level rise every day.

I think it is important as a Nation for us to look at a different way of public-private partnership.

What more could we be doing, should we be doing in this vein?

We just introduced, with 23 colleagues, a bill to reauthorize and expand the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture utilization and storage.

I think a closer look at that suggests that his comment ignores the facts on the ground.

The Administration, current Administration, often uses what I believe is questionable information to defend the President's decision to walk away from the Paris Climate Agreement.

So if you are concerned about manufacturing and supporting the 12 million manufacturing workers, losing nuclear power is alarming.

If you are concerned about unemployment in the communities that support our existing nuclear reactor sites, the thought of losing these jobs is alarming.

If you are concerned about climate change, as I am, that possibility is alarming.

Losing this diversity could be very costly.

I was going to heap praise upon him for being such a good partner of mine on so many issues.

We formed the Federal Government for the common defense and for the common security.

This is an outrageous environmental injustice that no child should be growing up in this situation.

How would we feel if folks over in Maryland were somehow polluting whether it is the air or the water that comes over and diminishes our ability to make a living?

Again, we appreciate your presence, your testimony, and your willingness to respond to our questions.

I was privileged to be Governor of our State from 1993 to 2001, and it was at a time when I think you said there was a score, if you will, for the restoration of the Bay gave a 34, said it is the best it has been for quite a while.

Different uniforms, same team.

The idea of intervening in the current science based, publicly informed species management process to legislatively delist a species gives me great pause.