Tom Carper actually said...

"I am all for reducing the corporate tax rate. We are not competitive with the rest of the world."

"We ought to be on a trajectory where the debt is not rising faster than the economy."

"Should we continue to cut the budget for the IRS? We cut it by 20 percent. Should we continue to cut it, knowing that for every dollar we cut, we lose four or five bucks?"

"I would just reiterate how important it is, I think, for us to return to regular order, to hold hearings, bipartisan hearings like this."