Tom Carper actually said...

Congress has an important role to play and needs to play that role. So I would encourage you to have as much oversight on these issues as possible.

Urging Congress to maintain oversight on government financial issues.

11/17/2010

More Tom Carper Quotes

We do not need to engage in demagoguery or run from our moral obligations in order to keep Americans safe.

One of the most important jobs of our government--in fact, State and Federal and local as well--is to make sure that our people are safe.

In an earlier existence, as a Governor, I was a founding Vice Chairman of something called the 'American Legacy Foundation.'

We spend a fair amount of time on this Committee focusing on root causes, as opposed to symptoms of problems.