Thomas R. Carper: “I am happy to welcome everybody today and call this hearing to order.”

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.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.

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

I hope is that the issues we just discussed... we can keep at it today and see if we can't find a way to yes.