John Sarbanes: “I spoke out early and forcefully about the unnecessary effort by Speaker Pelosi to create a separate, select committee…”

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

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.

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.