Tom Carper: “We are an oversight Committee, as you know, and we are an authorizing Committee for Homeland Security Department.”

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

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

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.