John Sarbanes: “I have used for myself as a way of understanding this the metaphor or analogy, I guess, of a levee that we are worried…”

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

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.

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

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