Ben Cardin actually said...

"I just want to congratulate the Committee leadership for forwarding legislation in the bipartisan manner the mission of our Committee for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure."

"I would just point out that when parliamentarians are involved, there is a much better chance that the policies adopted by the Organization will be implemented in their particular states."

"We have so-called democratic states that have weakness in governance that we really need to work on."

"The initiation of the trafficking commitments globally to fight, human trafficking, to deal with the Global Magnitsky statute, came out of the Parliamentary Assembly."