Tom Carper: “We know we have these huge budget deficits. We know the Medicare trust fund is running out of money.”

To have vacancies that may be not just months, but in some cases years to that have been filled, that justice delayed is justice denied.

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.