Tom Carper actually said...

"I am going to ask, when the hearing is over, if you would just spend a few minutes with members of my staff..."

"We are trying to grapple with deficit reduction in Washington."

"We should not think of our efforts to modernize facilities and adopt cleaner energy as simply an environmental initiative, although it is that."

"I will certainly do if I am confirmed is to make that point very clearly to people operating nuclear power plants that it isn't the point that it is not hurting anyone."