Ben Cardin actually said...

"This has got to be done in a way the public will accept. Otherwise, we cannot sustain this."

"We have enjoyed support not just from Virginia and Maryland and Delaware and the Nation's capital but also from the people of Pennsylvania and the people of New York and people of West Virginia who ar..."

"We need to look at trends over a longer period of time, and that is why I think the Hopkins and the University of Maryland study is instructive in that regard."

"It was the Congress, not the Environmental Protection Agency, that passed the Clean Water Act."