Tom Carper

He was really against improper payments.

We care deeply about access to medications, innovation, and better health outcomes.

Last year the Medicaid Part B program spent, I believe, about $22 billion on prescription drugs.

But this morning a number of our colleagues, Senator Inhofe, myself, other members of this committee had the privilege of witnessing the signing of a major piece of environmental legislation.

I make a unanimous consent request, if I could, to enter a couple letters from the environmental and health community expressing, believe it or not, opposition to S. 2702 and S. 2882.

Today is a monumental day.

Today is a day to remember not just because they are having a sit-in over in the House of Representatives; that is not memorable enough.

The Clean Air Act is an amazing success story, and air quality has improved dramatically.

Anything that takes a broad cut at the baseline standards here puts States like mine in real peril.

My time has expired. Madam Chair, I would just say those of us whose roots are in West Virginia were raised by parents who believe in common sense.

To protect our health, we need less ozone pollution.

I disagree with that statement.

Sometimes, Madam Chair and colleagues, I think people think that they wake up in the morning over at EPA and they say, well, what can we tighten up today to make life miserable for the other States.

The situation that they face in Arizona reminds me of the situation that we have faced in Delaware.

Some of it was program integrity work, but also, I think, the idea was to make it permanent.

I like that he is focusing on poverty.

Find out what works. Do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that, too.

We need to think with our hearts, but also with our heads.

President Obama is going to sign into law, legislation, at 11:15 this morning, that the White House and I worked on for the last 4 years.

We have a fiscal imperative to meet that moral imperative in a fiscally responsible way.

We have a moral imperative--whatever our faith is--to the least of these in our society.

Not everybody likes the Affordable Care Act (ACA). One of the things that I like about the Affordable Care Act--among others--is that, when people actually do go to work and get off of welfare, they have health care.

People would be better off going to work than staying on welfare.

I think, if I were giving them advice, it would be to be vocal and brave in speaking out against the kinds of abuses that we see perpetrated by ISIS.

I applaud folks of the Islamic faith--I really applaud those who are speaking up, in some cases, at risk--at real risk to your own personal safety.