Tom Carper actually said...

"we really want to work as a Committee to help you accomplish your jobs, not throw up roadblocks"

"I do not know that we are ever going to get to that simple example that I cited earlier..."

"We need to focus while we work on the symptoms, which are more visible and which we talk about a whole lot, but think about the underlying causes."

"For every President I have seen here since Ronald Reagan right up through President Obama, there is a similar kind of discipline at work."