Tom Carper

One of the things I have heard our Chairman say many times is, we need to focus on the root causes of illegal immigration.

I do not remember many of them ever saying that we needed a wall.

What may work on our border with--first of all, I think everybody on this panel--I think everybody in the Senate agrees we need to have secure borders.

The big question is: How do we get them?

I think everybody in the Senate agrees we need to have secure borders.

That is going to make a huge difference. It is enormously encouraging.

We are concerned about dam removals.

The $7 billion Great Lakes Fishery would not exist were it not for the sea lamprey control program.

Second to waterboarding.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment in human history.

I think some good work took place at the very top with the leadership of our two countries, and we are going to see the benefits of that later this year.

A lot of people think that folks who are coming into the United States are Mexican. They are not.

NAFTA worked actually pretty well for the Mexicans, I am told. They have a more vibrant middle class than they did 20 years ago.

I was, however, disappointed that the TPP agreement excluded the financial services sector from the prohibition on data localization requirements.

It is good to be with my colleagues and the chair of the Senate Finance Committee. I am pleased to say a few words about the President's nominee, Seema Verma, who, if confirmed, will lead us at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…

When we wrote the new law over the last couple of years, we told EPA to--try to first figure out whether or not a chemical was dangerous, and then to consider the cost when the agency was deciding how to protect people from whatever risk…

Thanks. Thanks so much, Mr. Chairman. Senator Heitkamp, good morning. Nice to see you.

I applaud our Chair and Ranking Member for holding this hearing. We are grateful to our witnesses for coming.

We did not tell EPA, though, that it had to study the costs and benefits of every possible regulation, and we did not tell EPA that it had to choose the cheapest option.

I am encouraged by what Dr. Back told us about 97 percent spent fuel being really burned up or consumed.

I would like to say sometimes out of something bad something good comes, and my hope is that certainly is the case here.

I have been there before and have a great affection for Miyagi and the people who live there.

We start looking at valuing the carbon contributions or, I should say, the non-carbon contributions of nuclear.

We need to always be doing everything safely.

Nuclear has to be a critical part of it.