John Sarbanes: “It is in both these years, not just the contrast of the last year of the Bush Presidency. But in the last year of the…”

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

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.

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

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.