Ben Cardin

What we are suggesting to you is that what we need is a national policy statement in the bill about how highways need to be designed to control water pollution.

We need to change the notion that a highway is an efficient delivery mechanism for pollution.

The next transportation bill must work to create new job opportunities for America, advance new transportation infrastructure projects that significantly reduce our fossil fuel consumption and reduce our carbon emissions.

Stormwater is the Nation's largest source of water pollution.

It really speaks in volumes as to what we need to do in improving our transportation infrastructure.

You all know the greenhouse gas emissions, that 30 percent comes from transportation.

We need an energy policy in this country. Transportation can play a key role.

This debate is about allowing every American to be able to tell their children that when they get sick, they will have an opportunity to see a doctor. It is about a small business owner who should not have to choose between insuring his…

Well, Senator Klobuchar, Chairman Klobuchar, thank you very much for conducting this hearing on the Government Accountability Office's investigation of EPA's effort to protect children's health.

I especially want to thank Senators Stabenow and Sanders of this Committee for being original co-sponsors

I want to thank Senator Merkley for his leadership in introducing this important legislation

But that just puts more money into the pot. Believe me, there is enough money in the pot.

I am going to work with my colleagues here on legislation because a constitutional amendment takes a lot of time.

Marylanders want fundamental change in the way that we finance campaigns in this country, and I want fundamental change.

The only way it appears to me that we may be able to correct it is through a constitutional amendment.

It is Congress' responsibility to set up the system for fair and open elections in the United States.

I think there's an inherent conflict sometimes between how good the government is and how much the need is.

It's sometimes very difficult to get support to build up the internal capacity of a country.

You have to have accountability.

We look at ways of changing our foreign aid focus to make sure there's transparency.

This amendment was successfully accepted into the Senate's version of the NDAA, but was unfortunately removed during the conference process.

In 2009, an unprecedented 160 Active-Duty Army suicides were reported, representing a 15 percent increase over the previous year.

That's a huge increase in the use of antidepressants, and that number remained pretty constant for 2008.

We have an alarming use in the increase of antidepressants.

I proposed an amendment (#1475) to the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which would have required the Department of Defense to report to Congress annually.