Tom Carper actually said...

If you had any idea the threats that our Nation faces from within and without on a daily basis, you would probably want the government to be...

We cannot just focus on symptoms of problems. We have to focus on underlying causes as well.

The Affordable Care Act is not the answer, the be-all in terms of actually getting there.

What we do need to do--and this budget does it to some extent--is provide funding for what I call force multipliers.