It is our responsibility to make sure that the Senate takes up these positions for up or down votes.
People want to make sure that, when they turn on their tap at home, the water that they get is safe for them to drink.
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 ...
On navigable waters, put me down for the Senator who believes that traditional understanding is what should be done.
I thank the two Marylanders that are here. Nothing against Oregon, but we do take care of our own State's people first.
I deeply respect all three of you, but two of you have the distinct good sense to be Marylanders.
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 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...
I think this Administration is trying to move in that direction to give some predictability to the laws.
I happen to be from the great State of Maryland, which I think did something both spectacular and really politically dif...
I think, Mr. Chairman--Chairman Shuster, Mr. Chairman, it is really incumbent on us to figure this out.
People say, oh, 1 degree, what does that mean? But when you see the types of storms that we have seen...
Rising sea level is creating a security problem for us as we are losing more and more of our shoreline.
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.
