These delays only serve to harm the 6.3 million children in this Country who have asthma today.

Unfortunately, after reviewing S. 263 and S. 452, I concluded these bills significantly weaken the existing Clean Air Act.

Our Nation's clean air protections have allowed our Country to make remarkable progress.

you can do the right thing and actually be rewarded by your voters.

If we have good performance measures, and one of those is very likely to include safety, fatalities, that sort of thing, if we have good performance measures in place, and we are measuring performance, we ought to have an idea of which…

we didn't just charge more stuff on the State's credit card.

One of the advantages of TIGER grants, as you know, is it helps leverage other moneys.

things that are worth having are worth paying for.

Abraham Lincoln used to say the role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

The amount that we are spending today is woefully short of what we ought to be spending.

our President put on the table a week or two ago the idea of user fees, raising user fees, something Senator Inhofe and I have been big proponents of for a long time.

Our job is to seize the day, carpe diem, or as we say in Delaware 'Carper Diem.'

I was heartened to hear President Trump's campaign pledge to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure.

I think the primary role of government... is to create a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

The 2017 report card from the Society of Civil Engineers gave our roads in this nation a D, as in dog--not delightful--dog.

It is hard to have a nurturing environment if you do not have good transportation systems.

I would think that we need to look at those sectors, whether ports, inland waterways, aviation, and surface transportation where we have a user fee structure in place and try to raise those fees to match inflation over the years where we…

Not a lot of silver bullets but a lot of silver BBs.

We have to do something about it.

I like to say one of the major roles of government is to provide a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

But most importantly, and to Senator Wyden's point, they have someone they know whom they can call at the plan.

Senator Carper is very much in the leadership of saying, we have to pay for what we need, and let us find a way to do it.

But so many bad things flow from being heavily overweight.

Carper, Hon. Thomas R., U.S. Senator from the State of Delaware.

The congestion is very costly to our economy; it is costly to our public health.