Tom Carper actually said...

"But one of the problems we ran into in the 1990's was, at a time when we were constrained for a while with revenue growth, we saw the operating budget, the capital budget constrained at a time when we..."

"I think the balance of this bill has it right, because what it basically says is that nothing happens unless Congress affirmatively enacts these changes."

"We really have to figure out how we are going to get better results for less money in this new time of fiscal constraint."

"At some point, we will be hit by a fiscal crisis as credit markets lose face in the U.S. political system's ability to fix the problem."