Tom Carper actually said...

"You can't tell me that maintaining unused or vacant Federal properties at $25 million per year is more important than reauthorizing the highway bill."

"We need to look at ways we can have an adequate source. I would hope we would be open to things such as using carbon fees or other ways to get the revenue necessary."

"I can tell you, they are critically important to our national economy, to the Federal Government because of the Federal work force, but also critically important for all of our communities."

"There is a good deal that we can agree on and work together on, and that is what the people of America sent us here to do."