John Sarbanes: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for having this hearing, and I also want to thank the Ranking Member for bringing…”

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

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.

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

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.