Carl Levin actually said...

"I understand. This was a regular routine process that----"

"It would have been a very large number eligible to come in."

"As a Senator from a Great Lakes State, I have seen up close the consequences of allowing aquatic invasive species to enter our waters."

"We simply are asking the committee, subcommittee then committee in the Senate and Congress then to do is to make sure that the bighead variety of the Asian carp is prohibited."