Tom Carper actually said...

I think on earmarks the argument--I do not know if Senator Levin made it while I was out of the room, but if we have a grant program, we wil...

If we ever go back in a future Congress and say we are going to restore earmarks in the appropriations process, maybe we could do this: Put ...

I would not have favored that, and I described it before you got here as giving the President--like putting a bazooka under the President's ...

We need for the White House, the Executive Branch, to provide stronger leadership on long-term deficit reduction.