Ben Cardin actually said...

"They are helping veteran businesses throughout the country and doing this because of their patriotic sense that they should do something to help our veteran community."

"It seems to me this is a natural for us to try to build partnerships with so that we can do more to help our veteran community."

"This is an extremely important subject in which all of us are reaching out to our veterans' community to see how we can be more effective in helping them."

"I do think we can have less pollution in our air and reduce carbon. We can do it in a way that would help public health, in a way that will create more jobs, and we can do it with nuclear energy in a ..."