"This bill takes important steps to support the ongoing restoration of the Chesapeake Bay by reauthorizing NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office and authorizing the agency's long-running Bay Watershed Education..."
"The health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can only continue to improve through robust Federal, state, and local partnerships."
"I hope that today's hearing is the first step in continuing that legacy of strong bipartisan support for the Chesapeake Bay in this Congress."
"We would like to thank Rep. Sarbanes for introducing this important piece of bipartisan legislation"
"Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act."
"each of which--each of which--would hamper EPA's ability to regulate air pollution and, unfortunately, continues this Republican agenda of putting Big Oil interests over the interests of the public."
"It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ba..."
"They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy."
"It's a national environmental treasure. It's a regional economic engine. It's been one of my top priorities since I've come to Congress."
"Without the strong and continued investment the EPA has requested for the Chesapeake Bay Program in fiscal year 2024, the risk is we could jeopardize decades of work in collaboration towards the Bay's..."
"The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards."
"the majority of Americans agree that climate change needs to be addressed now--not 10 years from now or 100 years from now, but now."