Thomas R. Carper

There remains an enduring urgent need to hire more cybersecurity professionals across the Federal Government and throughout the private sector.

I think it has been like a decade. I think it may have been a decade since we had a Senate-confirmed Chief Financial Officer in the Department of Homeland Security.

Jeff is exceptionally well qualified to serve as the Department's next CFO, and I know his long-held institutional knowledge and his extensive experience in budget management will serve our country well.

There is a debate that is unfolding on the floor today.

Would you have said when hell freezes over?

One of the Ranking Members here was a fellow named Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma, who was a climate change denier.

As if things couldn't get any busier, the Senate is now beginning to vote.

I think the consensus around innovation, American leadership, things like the example I just gave you that would probably save lots of lives in Hawaii or California or elsewhere, I think that is part of the reason why things are moving…

We can be proud as Americans that we are leading the pack in terms of addressing climate change.

I think we know where we are going if we don't work together, pull together.

Everything we do, everything we do we can do better.

Making more informed policy decisions will help us protect more Americans from extreme weather and allow us to use taxpayer dollars more effectively.