Ben Cardin actually said...

"Well, one of the things we learned from the Chesapeake Bay Program is that we had 5-year plans, and we would wake up after the fifth year and say, gee, we didn't do what we said we were going to do."

"We are constrained. We have a huge budget deficit in New York, $8.5 billion projected for next year."

"New York strongly supports the legislation authored by Senator Gillibrand to fold the Stewardship Act into the Restoration Act."

"I strongly urge the Senate to consider increasing the current Federal 50-50 match for Long Island Sound projects to a 75-25 match."