Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleague for yielding and for introducing the Ocean, Coastal, and Watershed Education Act, H.R. 3644, and for working to maintain the Bay-Watershed Education and Training programs, watershed approach for environmental education. In my own State of Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay B-WET was the first B-WET that was established for the country, and it serves as a national model of watershed-based environmental education. Earlier this fall, I was pleased to join with Congressmen Kratovil and Wittman to introduce and then see passage in the full House of Representatives legislation that reauthorizes the Chesapeake Bay B-WET program. The bill before us will codify other existing B-WET programs around the country and provide NOAA the authority to create new B-WETs in various watersheds throughout the country and the territories. So I want to again thank Congresswoman Capps for her leadership. {time} 1130 One of the things that this does, this education and training for the next generation, is that it encourages our kids to become comfortable with science; to look at the world through an empirical lens; to make decisions based on data and facts, not just opinion. And that's a skill that we really need to encourage in the next generation.…”