Thomas R. Carper: “I announced a couple of months ago that I am not going to run for re-election next year.”

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.

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.

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