Should we require manufacturers to pay into municipal collection programs?

Together, I am confident that we can rise to the gravity of this challenge, and as we say in Delaware, seize the day, or Carper diem.

Doing so benefits our environment as well as our economy, as well as our basement, providing some more extra room in our basement and garage, and is a win-win for the Carper family and I suspect a win-win for a lot of other families, too.

while the Senator from Massachusetts is still on the floor, he and I have been friends for, gosh, 35 years. We served together in the House. We used to travel all over Latin America and South America during the contra war. We are still…

folks that are back in Delaware are probably wondering as they are watching on C-SPAN, What is our Senator doing there giving a floor speech and talking about a woman from Wyoming? There is a Wyoming, DE. It is in Kent County, which is…

I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak for 5 minutes and that Senator Stabenow be permitted to speak for 5 minutes prior to the scheduled votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

it is good to see you, and it is good to see my colleague John Cornyn here in the Senate today, all the pages, and folks who came back to go to work. There is a lot of work to do. One of the first items of business before us is a critical…

I am concerned, as I am sure you are too, that Saudi Arabia's human rights record runs counter to the Tour's stated values of inclusion and respect.

But if the proposed framework agreement becomes finalized, can you definitively tell us that the PGA Tour and its players will be able to speak freely about the human rights record of Saudi Arabia?

Are you concerned that the proposed framework agreement will provide the Saudi Arabian government the opportunity to hide its human rights record behind the Tour's values.

We absolutely agree with what you said, and we would not go ahead with, it is not going to get any support without it.

Senator Carper had asked us a couple of months ago to pull together a focus group in our rural part of the State, because they were so frustrated with EDA.

I wanted to be here today to add my sentiments to what has already been expressed about the need to reauthorize the EDA at fiscally responsible levels.

It employed something like 4,000 people, and they closed it. We lost 4,000 jobs just like that.

Resiliency, I can't think of a single county in Florida that doesn't have resiliency as a top priority.

I still think the State and local boards, the work force boards, are where the rubber meets the road in most of our communities.

if you feed a person for a day, you can do that, but if you want to help a person eat for life, you teach them how to fish.

I remember us petitioning, at that time I think it was the Clinton administration, then later the Bush administration, for Federal support.

One of the best ways you can help somebody is make sure they have a job.

I think there is a balance here between making sure that we are providing the money where it is most needed and can be put to best use, but also make sure that there is skin in the game.

Everything I do I know I can do better.

And now the STAR campus has been created, and about 4,000 people work there in all kinds of high tech businesses.

Some communities across our country are struggling with how to navigate today's economy.

People ask me what I like most about my job. I like helping people.

That is about the size of Delaware.