John Sarbanes: “I also would like to commend Senator Dorgan for his leadership on this issue in the Senate.”

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

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.

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 ban.

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.