Tom Carper actually said...

"I think it would enhance the President's faith in the Legislative Branch to take on his requests."

"I am actually encouraged that we are seeing a little bit of a restoration of bipartisan spirit in the Senate, which is good."

"If we were to restore earmarks in that limited way with a lot of transparency, the idea of having the legislation before us, actually signed into law, I think would be helpful in an earmarks restored ..."

"The last President, this President, current Secretary of Defense said, 'Why don't we stop buying more C-17s?'"