Thomas R. Carper: “I feel it again today. We did a lot of good work toward the end of just before we broke for the recess.”

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.

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

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.

Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.