Tom Carper

The United States is not the only country that is experiencing significant increases in asylum seekers from those three Central America countries.

I think Congress--well, not just Congress but others as well, but we are often better about buying new technologies than we are at paying to get the full value of those investments.

We do not get a lot of second chances in life, do we?

It is my understanding that the House appropriators set discretionary spending levels for the Department of Homeland Security somewhere around $39 billion.

I usually get a better result in the end if I am trying to figure out how to do something by asking a lot of other people, 'Well, what do you think?'

It actually sounds like common sense, and I think it sounds like a pretty good idea.

I hope the appropriators will heed the President's call for a new focus and investment there.

Ensuring an efficient and effective border security and immigration system is incredibly important.

I served a little time over there.

I asked them to tell us what is not working so that we can do less of that.

I am pleased to see that it has been funded by the appropriators--not to the full extent, but I think generously.

I am Tom Carper, and I approve that message.

I think somebody here said it, broken immigration system. It is. That is a very valid acknowledgment.

I am just very proud of what we have done in our State of Delaware.

If folks who are citizens of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who want to come to this country to work for a limited period of time and be able to go home, maybe we ought to change our immigration laws so that can happen.

Maybe this is one that we could work on together to do a better job on.

The Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador must take the lead on this--and they are.

I wrote to our colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this year urging them to fund the President's request for 55 new immigration judge teams.

Loved doing it. It was an honor.

We need entitlement reform that serves old people, poor people, does not savage old people or poor people, but, frankly, saves these programs for our kids.

I think we need comprehensive immigration reform.

Technology is the key to securing the border.

Thank you, and I want to thank the folks on our Committee and, frankly, a lot of my colleagues and people around the country who have expressed just personal feelings about what those of us who were riding that train last night from…

We need tax reform that lowers the rates, broadens the base, and helps raise a little bit of money for deficit reduction.

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