John Sarbanes: “I want to salute my colleague, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez for her legislation on recognizing poverty.”

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.

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.

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

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