Ben Cardin actually said...

"This is going to be the first Congress which will not have a legacy of passing legislation to help protect our environment."

"It just wasn't fair because we would have to clean up our emissions more and more and more all the time, and at the same time the States we competed with for jobs would end up with cheap energy."

"It was Peabody Coal that made that decision."

"we will, in fact, have a global Magnitsky law so that we can take the--our experience from Russia and use it in other countries."