Tom Carper

DACA and DAPA are smart public safety policy.

Have we lost our minds? I hope not.

Last Congress, this Committee... spent a great deal of time examining our Nation's broken immigration system.

The Visa Waiver Program, which has been around for actually quite a while, continues to evolve and to hopefully be improved.

DACA and DAPA are smart economically.

We do a lot of oversight work here. We do a lot of asking of studies by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and others.

We tried to pass information-sharing legislation, as you know, in the House and the Senate.

Last year, when we were in the 113th Congress, we legislated in three or four different Bills with respect to cybersecurity.

This is a timely, important topic. Let us see what we can learn from all of you.

As we say in Delaware, bienvenido.

I realize you could help us buildup to that list and be real partners in this.

People want us to work together and the spirit that Senators Boxer and Inhofe bring to these proceedings is, I think, what the folks are looking for across the Country.

I believe a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) with the European Union represents enormous opportunities for U.S. manufacturers, farmers, and service providers.

We want to make sure that we can sell them to as many markets as possible

Thanks, Senator Grassley.

Tens of thousands of jobs depend on our ability to have a fair settlement and a fair agreement with respect to biologics

Justice delayed is justice denied

Immigration reform actually will, over the long term, reduce budget deficits and foster greater economic growth.

The real payoff from good transportation policy is moms and dads who get home to see their kids 15 minutes earlier every day.

We do not create jobs, we help create that nurturing environment.

We would get a fair amount of GDP growth and economic boost from putting 600,000 or 700,000 people to work building roads, highways, and bridges across the country.

I say, 'I am a recovering Governor,' and I am.

We have not raised it in 21 years.

What Mike Enzi likes to say, he has this 80-20 rule. He says, we agree on 80 percent of the stuff, we disagree on 20 percent of the stuff.

The message for me coming out of the election was that folks in our States want us to work together, they want us to make progress on real issues and they want us to strengthen the economic recovery.