Timothy H. Bishop: “Seventy percent of our economy is rooted in consumer spending.”

The second trend highlighted at this morning's hearing focuses back on the Congress and how the Federal Government has stopped making significant Federal investments in improving our Nation's water quality.

This information suggests that we are moving in the wrong direction in improving the quality of our Nation's water resources.

I hope that we can somehow collectively get to the point where we hold student athletes to the same--or hold coaches to the same standards we hold student athletes.

I hope we can all agree that is a good thing, and I hope we can also all agree that that improvement would not have happened were it not for the Clean Water Act.