Brian Schatz actually said...

"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 ..."

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

"Unfortunately this situation hasn't improved much in the last 5 years."

"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..."