Tom Carper: “We just had a wonderful signing ceremony of the legislation that bears the name of former Senator Ted Kaufman and former…”

I think that's disgraceful.

I ask to be recognized, and I am pleased to be here with you today. I rise today in strong support of critical bipartisan legislation that will come to the Senate floor--not later this year, later this week, or this month, but later today…

I don't know if my colleague from West Virginia can tell how much I am blushing over here from her kind and generous comments and having offered in the Committee to name this bill after me. One of the joys of serving here for almost 24…

We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.