Tom Carper actually said...

"Maybe as we do our top-to-bottom review of the Department we can actually figure out how to have a few less Committees and Subcommittees for you to report to."

"I especially want to applaud whoever figured out the idea of assigning to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the responsibility for doing the outreach to key stakeholders."

"What Senator Portman and I are working on is a proposal that simplifies it, that makes it permanent."

"I am very concerned about the cuts in conservation in this budget, as well as in crop insurance, so that is something that this Senate is taking a different approach on."