Tom Carper

Are we aware of any effort to actually mount an attack using a dirty bomb in this country or another country?

Our Nation's fiscal crisis may have receded from the headlines in recent months, but, in fact, we are still dealing with the same challenges we faced for years now.

As I have stated before, our country needs a comprehensive, long-term budget plan that really does three things.

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I think we are going to wrap it up here. I think we are just about to start some votes over in the Senate.

I want us to go back in time a couple of years, I think, to 2012.

Could we not just say, if you want to have somebody who is really experienced out in the field, he would make a good instructor, in order to induce him or her to come and be an instructor, pay them a stipend.

What concerns have been raised about--well, let us just go back.

I commend that announcement.

The Tester-McCain bill we are examining today will save, we hope--taxpayers money, hopefully a good deal of it.

What I have come to understand is that what happens along our borders is only a symptom of the problem.

The purpose, as you know, of this hearing is to examine the merits of S. 1691, the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act.

Without nuclear energy those goals will be nearly impossible to achieve.

I applaud the EPA's new Clean Power Plan to cut carbon emissions from the nation's existing power plants by 30 percent by 2030.

I am a firm believer that climate change is occurring and humans are the primary drivers of it because of our carbon pollution.

The devastating consequences of climate change are too great for any of us to sit on the sidelines.

The Port of Wilmington is not just important for the State of Delaware, where it serves as a key economic engine in New Castle County.

It is important, because our focus as a Congress cannot solely be on security, but also on maintaining and enhancing our economic competitiveness.

As the former Governor of Delaware and someone who was ultimately responsible for running a major port, the city of Wilmington owned and ran that Port of Wilmington for many years.

But, we should not and we cannot stop here.

It is critically important that we strike the right balance.

Let us just see if there is any consensus on the metrics that we are using, how do we measure success.

So, protecting our ports, safeguarding our economic opportunity, is a responsibility that we take very seriously.

We want to take a look at the current state of port security in these United States of America.

I think we have a choice as people who serve in the Senate and the House. We can do nothing, or we can try to find solutions that help drive our economy forward and address issues of climate.