Tom Carper actually said...

the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act which Senator Coburn, Senator Lieberman and I and others had worked on.

In order to address the burden that this debt places on our country, I think we need a new kind of culture here in Washington, DC.

I do not think we have had a debt situation like this since World War II. It was not sustainable then, and we know it is not sustainable now...

We plan to do that.