Thomas R. Carper

I announced a couple of months ago that I am not going to run for re-election next year.

Both of you mentioned the PROTECT Program that we created in Congress in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided more than $55 billion for drinking water and wastewater improvements, the largest investment in our Nation's history.

I know I will get my way.

I spent part of that time just covering my little State, visiting a lot of businesses large and small, non-profits and other entities.

Thank you for your leadership on these issues and your leadership on the Subcommittee you chair.

Through that law, Congress is investing an unprecedented $55 billion to improve drinking water and wastewater systems in communities across our Nation, including replacing lead service lines and addressing emerging contaminants, and it was…

We are trying to change the narrative, change the culture where it is a true profession, it is a great, noble profession.

That water bill, combined with our Committee's historic highway legislation, served as the foundation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Categorical grants from Congress make up 25 percent of my entire operating and staffing budget.

I think it is, I would use the word shameful, in the way that the city has delayed consideration of nominees for judicial posts in the District of Columbia too often and in past years.

We are trying to change the narrative, change the culture where it is a true profession, it is a great, noble profession.