Tom Carper actually said...

We need to take immediate steps to ease the pain for consumers at the gas pump right now for the American family.

If we want to get real and move to our greatest strength in our Country, it has got to be plug in, baby, plug in.

I am by nature an optimistic person. I come out of this hearing more optimistic, not less.

At a time when America's energy costs are tied to the whims of dictators like Vladimir Putin, our hearing today will explore how our Nation ...