I think, Mr. Chairman--Chairman Shuster, Mr. Chairman, it is really incumbent on us to figure this out.
I repeat our thanks for your patience and your willingness to put your names forward to serve our Country in a very impo...
Chairman Boxer and Ranking Member Vitter, your recent work on the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 is a tangible ...
I deeply respect all three of you, but two of you have the distinct good sense to be Marylanders.
On navigable waters, put me down for the Senator who believes that traditional understanding is what should be done.
And they expect that our toxics and our chemicals are handled in a safe manner in order to protect the welfare of our co...
They expect that when their children are swimming in a lake, that it is safe for them to be in that lake swimming.
I believe that we all share a common goal of clean and healthy waters.
I would hope that we would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out its responsibility.
If approved by this committee and confirmed by the Senate, it is my intent to work with all toward achieving that object...
It is our responsibility to make sure that the Senate takes up these positions for up or down votes.
We are involved, I serve on the Senate Foreign Committee with Senator Boxer and others on this Committee.
We need national policies to deal with these issues.
These extreme weather events and increased temperatures are not theoretical. They are happening to us right now.
This climate crisis is already happening, and the extreme weather that we have been experiencing as a nation makes it cl...
Rising sea level is creating a security problem for us as we are losing more and more of our shoreline.
People say, oh, 1 degree, what does that mean? But when you see the types of storms that we have seen...
The loss of sea grasses by warmer water is affecting the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay.
