Ed Markey actually said...

"the first and most important goal we had was just to make sure that kids didn't die, that they weren't drinking the water, that they weren't put in situations that could lead to these human tragedies."

"a vision without funding is a hallucination"

"the first and foremost goal that we had to have was just to make sure that all these children didn't have other equivalents around the United States"

"It's really leveling the playing field, as I best understand it."