Thomas R. Carper: “I was very heartened to see that, since the Inflation Reduction Act was enacted last fall, the IRS has already begun…”

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.

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

Not really. I have just come from the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, which is having a hearing on the Key Bridge, the bridge in Baltimore that was badly damaged.

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