Tom Carper

I love my job. I feel so lucky at any time to actually be here, involved with this climate change, trying to strengthen our economy, tame inflation.

If you want to help people, the best way is to make sure they have a job and to make sure that businesses that are doing good work are providing those job opportunities.

Almost every time, the witnesses would say, more oversight.

It is clear from your testimonies that private sector can partner productively with public agencies to achieve important national goals.

Business needs certainty and predictability. That is one of the first things I ever learned as a cub State treasurer at the age of 29. I will take that with me to the grave.

Thank you, Senator Cardin, for joining us today and for your great work on this bill.

But if we stick with it, don't give up, work together, we can turn aircraft carriers, and we can get this piece of legislation not just passed and enacted, but implemented well.

You are talking to a Committee that is chaired by someone who has a State with 300 chickens for every person.

If it is true, it ain't bragging.

We waited on this current Administration way too long to nominate somebody of his quality.

I think both Democrats and Republicans believe it is important to continue to protect our environment as we go through permitting reform.

I am a big believer in certainty and predictability.

I am going to ask you to be very brief in your response.

I think there are some rule changes that can be made around, in particular, scrappage requirements.

We are not going to back down until we get this right, perfect, as close to perfect as possible.

Thanks very much. When we do Q&A, I am going to come back to your last point about the kinds of skills sets that we are graduating students from our colleges and universities, community colleges.

One of my favorite sayings is, flattery won't hurt you if you don't inhale.

Hopefully, the Federal Reserve, which was AWOL for frankly too much of this year, they have now started doing their job.

I am proud of our Committee, very grateful to Senator Capito for her support.

None of it, nothing that is this adventurous, this transformative, it won't be perfect.

We would rather be involved in the dialogue at the front end as opposed to the back end.

Thank you for the great work you did, and frankly, just about everybody on this Committee and our staffs, on the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are right.

Last time I checked, 30 percent of the carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions in our Country come from our mobile sources.

We passed, with a lot of support from these two gentlemen and certainly from Senator Capito and others, the most extensive, meaningful, consequential Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill we have ever passed.