Ben Cardin actually said...

"If you are talking to the farmers, they think the farmers are the ones who are being picked on the most as far as dealing with the clean up of the Bay."

"I do object to using the Chesapeake Bay and its clean up as a way to tell people that what is being asked is impractical and impossible to achieve."

"It was the Congress, not the Environmental Protection Agency, that passed the Clean Water Act."

"We need to look at trends over a longer period of time, and that is why I think the Hopkins and the University of Maryland study is instructive in that regard."