Tom Carper

I don't believe Americans are especially interested in Democratic ideas or Republican ideas.

By cleaning up our school buses, DERA reduces our black carbon emissions and employs thousands of workers who manufacture, who sell or repair diesel vehicles and install the components in each State.

Again, thank you so much for being here, thank you for the great work that you are doing in this arena.

If they are idling, if they are not idling, if they stop the idling, you save fuel and probably save some lives as well.

The success of these strategies has not gone unnoticed by the international community.

Thank you so much. Thank you for your testimony and for your leadership for eons on these important issues.

It is a win-win-win.

Is it possible to clean our environment, clean our air and create jobs at the same time? ... the answer is very encouraging: yes.

I don't believe that Americans are especially interested in Democratic ideas or Republican ideas. They are interested in good ideas.

Let me emphasize, we believe there is still plenty of work to do that will allow more need for these programs.

Clean air is not a partisan issue on Capitol Hill.

I appreciate the dedication to reducing the Federal deficit, but some investments are actually worth paying for, especially when they have a 13 to 1 payoff.

My colleagues and I were sent to Washington to govern and to find commonsense solutions to the challenges that face our Nation.

That could actually help address one of the underlying causes.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. And there is also a real shared responsibility here.

We focused on teenage pregnancies, how to reduce them. I saw the other day that teen pregnancies are down by half in this country since 1992, the year I was elected Governor.

Why don't we focus this Administration for 4 years or 8 years, however long I was going to get to be Governor of Delaware, and just focus on the underlying causes of why does a kid start school behind, why do they fall further behind, why…

We focused a whole lot on parenting training for people, including people in prison, because almost all of them were parents.

We must not be content to make just a dent in human trafficking.

As Dr. King said, 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'

Human trafficking should be called exactly what it is: 'modern-day slavery.' It is a plague on our Nation and the world.

It is, to put it bluntly, a crime against humanity.

Could we just talk about underlying causes?

I think it is a wonderful precedent for much of the rest of our government.

I want to thank you and the Committee for having this hearing, and I think the sooner we get some postal reform, the more pressure will be released out in the field.