Ben Cardin

I really am encouraged by what the Mayor is saying in your conversations with EPA, of looking at three different sources and putting them together as a coordinated plan.

So we look at the whole operation: can we reduce chemical use, and our carbon footprint to ensure that we have resources available for our children and their children's children in the future.

Senator Sessions' point is a very valid point.

I think it would be helpful for us to have if you could, quantitate the cost of inaction.

Truly, I believe that people are getting a real bargain with water supply and water service.

If a business is going to be able to locate they have to have access to water.

Senator Inhofe has been a strong proponent of moving forward with water infrastructure as has Senator Boxer.

I think we should push for some form of a clean water trust account that could leverage the dollars.

Thank you very much for your testimony.

The stimulus was touted as the way to fix our Nation's infrastructure, but in the end it was one of the biggest bait and switch schemes of all time.

It takes me back--the problems in Baltimore pre-date our mayor, and pre-dates your service even as a city councilwoman.

I like your clean water trust fund; I think that makes a good deal of sense for us to consider that.

We need to reduce regulatory burdens and ensure that rural communities have the flexibility to resolve water quality issues in a cost-effective manner.

If my math is right, that is four or five a day that you get every day of the year.

We want to make sure that water is included in those areas.

I plan to take some action on that and expect that some of my colleagues will be joining us in that regard.

This year, we will run the fourth consecutive deficit over $1 trillion.

We are going to yield the floor. Let me agree with my colleague, Senator Shaheen. She is absolutely right. It is going to be easier for them to speak out if they know we are going to continue raising these issues. I thank Senators Shaheen…

With current law, if we do not change it, the middle class is going to get socked.

If we do not help the middle-class families, the recovery is going to be much longer than we want it to be.

Education is the ticket for being able to participate in the opportunities of America.

The situation of the Roma may present the most serious human rights issues in Bulgaria.

We have now over the first half of this year admitted more SIV cases into the United States than we did all of last year.

I have known Iraqis who have worked with us and lost their lives.

This issue is very important to me and it's a very personal issue to me.