Ben Cardin

I would point out that we did provide for green infrastructure within the State Revolving Funds, particularly during the Recovery Act.

I want to thank all the witnesses here today. I found this hearing to be extremely helpful.

Unfortunately, WSSC has not been able to attract SRF funds, because of the income guidelines that have been established by the State of Maryland.

I think there is probably more agreement here than disagreement.

We need to look at the overall objective here too, which is to improve the water qualities of our waters.

Let me turn to Senator Boozman.

I want to thank Senator Boozman for his help and cooperation during this term of Congress.

We thank you very much for your innovative leadership and we know that there are huge challenges in this region in regard to how we treat our wastewater.

Mr. Zindler, do you want to jump in here? I know there are some concerns about the difficulty of storing and transmitting with solar, with wind.

It is incredibly important that we update our tax incentives for the energy realities of today.

Energy conservation is one of the easy areas that we should be able to deal with in an energy policy in this country.

I think that point is well-taken. The problem is, it is just not being done today.

The military strikes have been very effective in pulling back ISIL's advancements.

I do not think it is difficult in Iraq.

I would hope we would all agree to that.

It requires an international response.

Recently, Senator Warren and I actually introduced a bill that we hope will get hot-lined soon.

I agree this is a critically important issue.

There is discussion, as you know, about savings in general and our still-low rate of savings in this country and how it affects the economy.

It has been 15 years since then-Congressman Portman and I recognized that we had a significant problem in our economy.

He has devoted his life to these issues.

I strongly support its mission.

As the Senator from Maryland, I take great interest in NRC since it is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.

Obviously, there are two ways to deal with this. One is to try to deal with the causes of climate change... The other is dealing with adaptation.

We're very supportive of it. Does the Bay Agreement tie into the work that you're doing?