Ben Cardin actually said...

"Thank you. I appreciate the cooperation we have in this committee. We try to do everything we can in a non-partisan manner because it involves the public health of the people of this Nation."

"Our first priority is to do what we can to prevent these types of episodes from happening again in our country."

"In West Virginia, it was not a petroleum-based product that caused the problem; it was a cleaning product?"

"It is our responsibility to make sure that expectation is, in fact, carried out, both at the Federal, State and local government levels."