Tom Carper actually said...

"What I want to do is to provide for a reasonable response when a President says, my hands are tied."

"We need only ask our friends in Greece and in Ireland about that."

"At some point, we will be hit by a fiscal crisis as credit markets lose face in the U.S. political system's ability to fix the problem."

"We really have to figure out how we are going to get better results for less money in this new time of fiscal constraint."