Thomas R. Carper: “One of the Ranking Members here was a fellow named Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma, who was a climate change denier.”

I want to thank our members for being here today.

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

You and our colleagues have heard me invoke in this room more times than I can count the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way I want to be treated.

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.