John Sarbanes: “We need to know in real-time that the alerts are being--that the threats are being taken seriously.”

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.

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.

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

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