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On the recordMarch 22, 2023
in reserving the right to object, I am interested in this, and Senator Hawley and I discussed this issue just today. This is the first I have learned of it--in the last 24 hours-- and I was pleased to have had a chance to have discussed it with him. Coincidentally, we are facing this at the Dover Air Force Base, which may be the finest Air Force base in the country. We have literally thousands of people--uniformed personnel and probably another 1,000 civilian employees and a bunch of children--who are involved in a school that is being rebuilt and replaced on the base. I explained to Senator Hawley that we are facing something a little different from the one he is explaining, but it is one that reminds me that there are children's lives and health at stake, and their future is maybe not in the balance, but it is a matter of concern. We are facing, as I said, a situation that reminds me a little bit of this in Delaware in realtime. Our school construction issue at the Dover Air Force Base and the safety issues there that are related to it have led my staff--my Delaware staff--and me to work with the Army Corps of Engineers in order to make sure that the issues that are particular to the Dover Air Force Base and to our school at that base-- it is actually a replacement school--are addressed. So, again, I am more than just a little bit interested and concerned about the issues that are outlined here.…
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Tom Carper
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