Tom Carper

We rebuke the ISIS narrative of us versus them.

I think where we need to, as a Committee, focus our attention is on the Visa Waiver Program.

Would you talk to us a little bit about whether or not we need to examine more closely...

I cannot imagine why they would want to spend 2 years going through a refugee screening process.

Not one person has been arrested.

Again, our border on the Southwest is very, very far from secure.

Let me just share something.

We are only interdicting somewhere between five and 10 percent of drugs coming in through our Southern border.

I think all of these things are very appropriate questions and I think they definitely need to be explored.

The conclusion that certainly I have come to, I think most Committee members have come to, is our borders are not secure.

This is a concern to us.

The continuation of this program serves vital national security imperatives.

Is there anybody here with you from DHS?

This is another nomination that could be very helpful in terms of the root cause, cutting off ISIS's money.

Out of the 2,000 that have come in as refugees in the last year or two, about 2 percent were military-aged males--2 percent.

If I could make a unanimous consent request to put in the record, Madam Chairman, a copy of the U.S. pledges for the general climate fund, which actually appear to be around $3 billion, instead of the $45 billion quoted earlier.

In my State, we face global sea level rise. It is going to do us in, eventually, if we don't do something about it.

They call them executive agreements.

I have been a longtime supporter of clean coal technology, I am sure you have as well, for over twenty-some years.

Leaders should be aspirational. It has been said that leaders are purveyors of hope.

The U.S. can't do it alone, but we can provide leadership.

I have confidence that this administration, and future administrations, will find the right compromises.

I have confidence that this Administration, working in conjunction with 50 laboratories of democracies, our States across America, using common sense, using sound science, will find the right recipe.

Today we are here to discuss, as we know, our Country's efforts to fulfill a promise that was made some 23 years ago, in 1992, to address global climate change.

I encourage the administration to continue its work to drive the international community toward a broader global agreement.