John Sarbanes: “I am addressing a situation in which we are not actually engaged in military conflict, but we want to take actions to…”

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.

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.

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

But these are dramatic changes that can bring us to a new place and, I think, have given many people a sense of hope instead of despair in the face of what we are seeing with a warming planet.