John Sarbanes: “I am embarrassed on behalf of the government's failure to respond to these warnings for so many years.”

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 and Training, or B-WET Grant program.

We would like to thank Rep. Sarbanes for introducing this important piece of bipartisan legislation

They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy.

The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.