05/05/2015
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"I'm really grateful. This is an important hearing. It's an issue I've been pushing and pounding away on since I introduced a bill in the last Congress."
"the amount of plastics being poured into our oceans--the amount of plastics, period, has increased 20-fold in the last 50 years."
"We are in a crisis in this country. It is affecting the next generation, affecting our economic competitiveness, and affecting the greatest natural treasure we have, which is not oil or gas, but the g..."
"Most people do not understand the crisis we have in the United States of America when it comes to the quality of our drinking water."