John Sarbanes: “The federal government's treatment of tribal nations over most of the last 200 years has often been reprehensible.”

It's a national environmental treasure. It's a regional economic engine. It's been one of my top priorities since I've come to Congress.

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.

Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.