Brian Schatz actually said...

"In fact we just witnessed a near disaster right here in the Nation's capital when water in Prince George's County was nearly shut off to tens of thousands of residents during the hottest week of the s..."

"This is a bipartisan issue. The need to repair our aging infrastructure in water and elsewhere applies to each of our States."

"I think what you're hearing from this committee is that those data bases need to be a little more than internal and a little bit more than a, sort of, a working tool, but a real reporting to Congress ..."

"We do need a national water strategy as well as a national infrastructure strategy."