Tom Carper actually said...

the increase in frequency and intensity of those extreme weather events are costing our country a boatload of money--not just the cost that ...

I believe we cannot afford to ignore the impacts these weather events are having on Federal spending.

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.

Let us just focus on the 80 percent that we agree on, and we will set the other 20 percent aside until another day.