Tom Carper actually said...

"Just coming out of our markup over in the Finance Committee on health care reform, there was a lot of discussion about defensive medicine."

"The first State will become next year the last State to host a national park."

"From the work that you have done at GAO, could you provide us maybe with an example or two of how an agency was able to bring about better outcomes through the use of performance information?"

"Those are just a few of the exceptional challenges that our country, including our government, needs to be prepared to address."