Mr. President, thank you for the opportunity to recognize and celebrate this morning's Chaplain. Rabbi Michael Beals has served our community in Wilmington, DE, and our country admirably and with a strength of faith and foundation that you…

I have the utmost respect for both the underpinnings and the purpose of whistleblower protections.

I understand the overall purpose in pay ratio in particular. But I don't understand how it implicates systemic risk.

As you know, we have already referred to here to extreme weather events such as the horrific tornado in Oklahoma earlier this week and Super Storm Sandy which visited my part of the Country which seem to be occurring with greater frequency…

I think communication is extremely important in the issue of regulating nuclear facilities.

I just urge the Chair of the NRC to be as responsive as you can be to those concerns.

What are some things that we might be doing to better ensure that our nuclear plants are safe?

I always ask them to give us advice, like, what should we be doing more of, less of?

we do not think that is a smart decision.

I feel fortunate that Tom and I have been given this opportunity to lead this Committee at this point in time.

unless there is serious congressional oversight, we are not going to see meaningful progress in the implementation of that legislation.

Maybe, how can we change the incentives so that the folks who are making these decisions are incentivized to do that.

You said it has the potential for saving billions of dollars. We agree. And we are not doing that.

we are committed to continue to work with the Congress.

If we are interested in performance and actually for the Administration to do its job, there is nobody home.

I am Tom Carper and I approve this message.

there needs to be oversight.

I think she has great potential, but she has to get a really strong team around her.