Tom Carper actually said...

"We are asking your department to answer the questions asked by another part of the Administration, EPA."

"I want to make clear I am asking you to direct your political and career staff to answer all EPA's questions about the Transportation Department's model quickly and completely."

"thank you for holding this hearing, thank you for being so intelligent, especially with our colleagues from Maryland."

"The ways you have responded to that question certainly raise for me, and I suspect for a number of my colleagues, the question whether the President did somehow intervene and express a view."