Ben Cardin actually said...

"I firmly believe that the development, manufacture and wide scale deployment of innovative renewable energy technologies will be critical to long-term job growth in the U.S. and the recovery of the na..."

"How do we structure our foreign assistance budget that does not become a tool for anti-American intervention in the country?"

"So in this particular case, we do not know what would have happened if you made that inquiry."

"But whose responsibility was it to look into that information and determine as to whether he was actively involved in al Qaeda in Yemen?"