Thomas R. Carper: “These types of public health advances are what we should hope every community in America has the opportunity to embrace.”

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.

People ask me what I am proudest of in my life, and I always say, raising three boys, with a big assist from their mom.

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.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.