Ben Cardin actually said...

"This is going to be the first Congress which will not have a legacy of passing legislation to help protect our environment."

"It was Peabody Coal that made that decision."

"I regret, though, that we did prevent the States from fully being able to fill the void until the Federal Government actually has an effective regulation."

"we will, in fact, have a global Magnitsky law so that we can take the--our experience from Russia and use it in other countries."