Tom Carper: “let me take one more minute on this subject to also extend my thanks and compliments to our staffs. On my staff, Bill…”

“let me take one more minute on this subject to also extend my thanks and compliments to our staffs. On my staff, Bill Ghent and Chris Prendergast worked long and hard for many hours. Our Commerce Committee staff, both Democrat and Republican, did a terrific job under the leadership of Senator Inouye, and we are deeply grateful to him and to Senator Stevens' staff for the wonderful work they did. The Commerce staff works in a way I wish every committee staff and subcommittee staff would--Democrat, Republican, majority, minority--it is almost seamless the way they approach almost every issue, including this one. I think one of the things that happens when you work like that is you get something done. While it is not unanimous acclaim for what we have done here, I think for the most part it is good work. If we live to see what happens over in the House, hopefully we will be able to resolve our differences with them.”