November 13, 2013 — It took a big ugly fish to pull together Wisconsin’s polar-opposite U.S. senators.
Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, and Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, last week joined 14 other Great Lakes senators in urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to find a fast fix to the Asian carp invasion.
“It is imperative that the Corps continue its evaluation process … so that we can move very quickly on a comprehensive approach to best protect the environmental and economic health of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River,” the senators wrote in a letter.
Congress moving quickly? Sounds good to us. Let’s hope this flash of bipartisan cooperation spawns more.
The senators sent their letter just a day after scientists announced the discovery of Asian carp DNA in Sturgeon Bay. That doesn’t prove the monster fish has reached Wisconsin’s Great Lakes waters. It’s possible, for example, the material arrived in the droppings of birds that ate the carp elsewhere.
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