Tom Carper

When you are spending billions and billions of dollars, and the government is not even telling gifted young people like Amber Lee, an Oregonian who is doing everything right, what the possible tools are in this education toolkit, something…

Clearly south Florida particularly is dealing today with sea level rise as it impacts both saltwater intrusion on our coastal areas, impacts our drinking water, draining systems that are critical to the overall well being of many of the…

It is in America's DNA to turn a problem into an opportunity, and that is what we have done by being a pioneer in the green technology industry.

We should all know we must take action to reduce harmful carbon pollution, which 97 percent of scientists agree is leading to dangerous climate change that threatens our families.

The American people understand the threats posed by climate change, and they want action.

I am proud that our landmark environmental laws were created with an overwhelming bipartisan consensus, and it saddens me that protecting the environment at the Federal level has become a partisan issue.

The inventory was not good. It has significant limitations as a tool for decisionmakers.

My recollection is this is something that Senator Akaka was very much interested in and focused on when he was with us.

We cut the size of government. I think we ended up in 2000 with fewer Federal employees than we had had in a long time. I think that was a goal.

What about the other 2,300?

I hope and pray that the subject of today's hearing is something that will just always be the subject for a hearing or for speculation.

OK. Maybe one more question, and then we will wrap up.

Let us go back to those radiography cameras.

Give us some idea how often these reports to police and to the NRC come in for devices that are missing or are believed to be stolen?

Give us just a flavor for how it was changed.

We have to do better. We have to do better than this.

Our job in this Committee is to do oversight.

Some other State has faced this challenge, and they have figured it out, and they are the gold standard.

And is that for Category I devices?

Did you say the regulation had been updated recently?

How do the safeguards that have been described here this morning, how do they compare with safeguards that are in place in other countries around the world?

I would assume that for Category I devices that the level of risk would be higher.

If we are to protect against the next Oklahoma City bombing, the next 9/11, or the next Boston Marathon bombing, we need to stay several steps ahead of the terrorists.

What would be 'fairly often'? Every year or two?

There really is no excuse for the kind of vulnerabilities identified by the Government Accountability Office.