I want you to drill down on that point.

I was stunned when I saw the number, the improper payments number, for 2014, because we had seen during a number of years that the number was going down beginning in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

If you had been in Delaware, a citizen of Delaware, and you called my office or Senator Chris Coons' office or Congressman John Carney's, we would have been all over this, all over this on your behalf.

If we're able to test these rape kits, more crimes could be solved, more crimes could be prevented, and more women would be given back their lives.

Highly potent, inexpensive, widely available heroin is now killing many people in my hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and across my State.

We are eager to work in partnership with you and all of Federal law enforcement in finding more effective models for diversion, for treatment, for interdiction, and for the prosecution of the related crimes.

Thank you for the resources being delivered, the advice, the mentorship, and the guidance to my hometown.

I think we cannot write another blank check for a war.

I feel uncomfortable that we continue to use OKO contingency funding for more and more functions.

I am a big believer in the Golden Rule, treat other people the way I want to be treated.

Delaware is the lowest-lying State in the Country. It is a real problem for us.

We need to figure out how to do it together.

We need to simplify the tax code, which is what this hearing is all about.

We have to provide revenue authorities with sufficient funding for effective enforcement.

Even so, targeted proposals to improve compliance will not by themselves address this problem.

The last time I think we had an analysis of the tax gap, we were told that the size of the tax gap--monies owed for Federal taxes not being collected--was about $385 billion.

I am Tom Carper, and I approve that message.

The thing I'm proudest of is my family. And the thing that's kept me sane ' and the thing that ' I'm not sure how it would have worked out had I been a single parent.