Tom Carper: “Senator Heitkamp, my wife seems, lately, to be interested in me working with her to update our will.”

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

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.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.