Tammy Baldwin actually said...

"The problem, as multiple courts have found over many years, is that the National Marine Fisheries Service hasn't done an adequate job under the Endangered Species Act in consulting under that statute."

"I certainly agree that we don't know nearly enough, but I think it calls for much greater funding for this basic research."

"Thank you, and if I can first respond to your words of welcome, it is a delight to get to join you as the Ranking Democrat on this Subcommittee."

"I would like to pursue the earlier line of questioning between the Chair and Mr. Norman about the predation of threatened and endangered steelhead and salmon by sea lions in the Pacific Northwest."