Ben Cardin actually said...

"The loss of sea grasses by warmer water is affecting the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay."

"We are involved, I serve on the Senate Foreign Committee with Senator Boxer and others on this Committee."

"These extreme weather events and increased temperatures are not theoretical. They are happening to us right now."

"This climate crisis is already happening, and the extreme weather that we have been experiencing as a nation makes it clear."