Maria Cantwell actually said...

"The Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation Enforcement has worked hard on this rule for six years to update regulations that really should have been on the books for the las..."

"I know that with any debate you have to start with scientific data that is available."

"It took us decades of hard battles involving many stakeholders before we started mitigating the impacts on our main source of the environment and electricity."

"But it is all about clean water, correct?"