Thomas R. Carper: “We welcome those metrics. Keep us heading in the right direction. It is very encouraging.”

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

We are delighted to be able to move the legislation today.

Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.

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.