Tom Carper actually said...
Somebody needs to, on a lighter note, I once asked a friend of mine, I said, 'Tell me about this Death Master File. What is it?' And he said to me, with tongue in cheek, he said, 'It is a file in which you do not want your name to appear, because if it does you are dead.'
Context
Carper humorously explains the implications of being listed in the Death Master File.
03/15/2015