Tom Carper actually said...

"Just coming out of our markup over in the Finance Committee on health care reform, there was a lot of discussion about defensive medicine."

"I think certainly consulting with Congress in that process would be very important and valuable."

"I think it needs to be a collaborative effort, and certainly we want to involve you and your staff in helping us think through how is it most useful to you."

"When you are running a budget deficit, in the last 8 years we ran up as much new debt as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's history, this year on track to our biggest budget deficit ever, a..."