Thomas R. Carper: “For too long, many Americans living in downwind States have suffered in part because upwind neighboring States refuse to…”

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

I would say there is a lesson here for both of us, and one of those is to make clear I am always ready to take your calls, your meeting, whatever you want and engage.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

I think that's really disgraceful, and it's unacceptable that the local DC courts have vacancies that last years because the Senate fails to act in a timely way.