Ben Cardin actually said...

"the segregation of people--the unnecessary segregation of people with disabilities in institutions is equally illegal and must be stemmed."

"Well, that is unfortunately consistent with the information that I think each of us has observed in our own communities, and it is clearly a circumstance that we need to take aggressive action, and we..."

"I think that the Chairman is right to recognize that politics is inappropriate in the Department and politics can be evident from both sides of the aisle, certainly, and we need to be concerned."

"I would hope that we would try to be empowering people to vote who are eligible to vote."