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Tom Carper

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Tom Carper is an American politician currently serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Carper has focused on various issues including healthcare, environmental protection, and fiscal responsibility throughout his career. He previously served as the Governor of Delaware from January 21, 1993, to January 2, 2001, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1983, to January 21, 1993.

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Apr 19, 2015

Some other Governor in some other State has dealt with this issue. They figured out how to deal with it in an appropriate way successfully.

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Apr 19, 2015

If you were sitting up here with us and you wanted to make darn sure that we got a good Census at a reasonable price, what are the one or two things that you would do if you were in our shoes to make sure that that happened?

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Apr 19, 2015

Just to keep in mind maybe what I hope we already do this, but whether it is in the postcard or whether it is in something that folks get over the Internet or something that people get in writing saying, 'You are going to get a survey,'…

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Apr 19, 2015

Are some more important than others? I presume they are.

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Apr 19, 2015

What Ms. Cha just said, is that something that rings a bell, access controls?

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Apr 19, 2015

But there is nothing to ensure that you will want to stay beyond this at this time.

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Apr 19, 2015

Maybe what we learned from the last couple of times out, 2000, 2010, about counting hard-to-count populations, one of the ideas I floated, I guess in the run-up to 2010, was maybe we could have--in terms of incentivizing people, to find…

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Apr 16, 2015

today I wish to express my gratitude to the chairman for his work with his conference to clear the path to this discussion today of the nomination of Russ Deyo and to bring his name forward for hopefully confirmation this afternoon. When I…

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Apr 15, 2015

Senator Schumer has spelled out with great passion and, as you know, a lot of heart-felt feeling and thought, his views on currency manipulation.

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Apr 14, 2015

There is an old cartoon character, Pogo, who said, 'We have seen the enemy and it is us.'

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Apr 14, 2015

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Commissioner Koskinen, it is great to see you. You have a tough job.

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Apr 14, 2015

But it galls the hell out of me to know that people call the IRS and they have to wait forever to get somebody on the line.

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Apr 14, 2015

I often say, almost every day, find out what works, do more of that.

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Apr 14, 2015

We have a responsibility--I have tried to stress that--to spend taxpayer dollars carefully.

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Apr 14, 2015

Tax administration is not a political enterprise.

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Apr 14, 2015

For this country to meet its climate and clean air goals, we must have nuclear in the energy mix.

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Apr 14, 2015

Can we do better at this? You bet we could. And we will.

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Apr 14, 2015

I do not know if I am going to be able to have time to get into this. For the last several months this year, I have been taking time 1 day a month to talk a bit about an employee in the Department of Homeland Security. Of all the…

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Apr 14, 2015

Instead of trying to kill the Affordable Care Act, we will find ways, in a bipartisan way, working with the administration to fix the problems that need to be fixed.

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Apr 14, 2015

I am a big believer in repetition, and I am going to ask you--this is important, and I just want to make sure we got this straight in terms of what we can be doing on this side of the dais to enable you and your folks to do a better job, a…

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Apr 14, 2015

We turned to Massachusetts, the one State that actually tried to address this issue.

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