Tom Carper

This increase would provide much needed resources at a time when we are asking the agencies to do more.

I hope we are successful.

The Service's mission of conserving, protecting, and enhancing our Nation's wildlife and habitats has never been more critical.

I have been waiting forever for fusion. I am glad I lived long enough to see the day come when it is going to be real, and it is going to help us meet our energy needs here and around the world.

God knows we face plenty of adversity on so many fronts, but we have way too much carbon in the air, and it is getting worse.

I had the privilege of spending a few minutes with Commissioner Baran earlier this week.

We have 14 former Governors now who serve in the U.S. Senate. It is a growing cabal of recovering Governors.

What we have done is we use the intern program. It is almost like in baseball, like the farm system, single A, double A, triple A, and then finally, the major leagues.

The clean energy provisions, that Senator Cardin and I led on.

I am concerned that this cumulative record, Commissioner Baran's votes, and the policies he has supported, may not align with what Congress expects, and the Nation needs and deserves, with respect to nuclear power.

As the United States and other countries around the world work to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, interest is growing in maintaining operating reactors and deploying new nuclear reactors that can help us meet our…

I think all that is critical. I agree with the comments that both you and Senator Capito made about how critical the existing fleet and future reactors are going to be to achieving our climate goals and our energy security goals.

The NRC is considered, as I have already mentioned, to be the world's gold standard for nuclear regulatory agencies. I am proud of that; I think every member of this Committee is proud of that.

Continuing down a path that would seem to follow from that past record will unnecessarily limit the deployment of safe nuclear energy and threaten America's security and economic competitiveness.

This record, if continued, will severely curtail the outlook for nuclear energy in our future, cede international markets to Russia and China, and limit the Commission's ability to deliver upon the vision set out by Congress at the dawn of…

We are delighted to see you here. I remember when they were just getting started, nobody had ever heard of them.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:30 p.m., adjourned until Friday, April 21, 2023, at 10 a.m. ____________________

Bravo Zulu. Keep up the great job.

Everything I do, I think everything we do, we can do better

This is the last thing I would say with respect to this amendment. If this amendment is not adopted, I would say to the Senator from Utah, I welcome the opportunity for my staff and your staff to sit down and talk through it and to better…

If you owe it, pay it. But let us get more strategic about the way we go about dealing with the--if we want to solve the problem...

Fortunately, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS now has the resources to expand access to free, simplified filing options.

A lot of the Free File program was created to simplify this process at no cost for low-income taxpayers. The program is not working as intended.

A review of the program that I requested from GAO... found that the program's utilization rate is drastically low, disappointingly low.

We have 10 million jobs today where nobody is showing up to do the work, and we hear from businesses all the time who say, 'There are people in other countries who would like to come and do these jobs. Why can't we allow them to do that?'