Tom Carper: “Some people said we need to do health care reform in order to slow the growth of health care costs, and we did.”

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

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

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