Tom Carper

The law aims to make agencies and agency leadership far more accountable for the expensive mistakes they make.

The budget deficit topped out a couple of years ago at about $1.4 trillion.

The best player on the team is the one who makes everybody else better.

We must use every tool available to put our fiscal house in order and to give the American people the government they expect and deserve.

Despite some progress that has been made, error rates in the amount of money lost to avoidable errors still remains at unacceptably high levels.

Reform our entitlement programs, and to do so in a way that saves money.

We need adequate and sustained funding to carry out these reviews.

I am encouraged that we are seeing these significant drops in the level of improper payments.

It sure is a States rights issue. I would be remiss if I didn't say this. I know my colleague has to leave. But in my first term as Governor, I had never heard of Mike Enzi. Who is this Mike Enzi guy? It turns out he is a great guy. He is…

There is a scripture in the New Testament. I will not get this exactly right. I think it is in the book of James, and it says, "Show me your faith by your words. I will show you my faith by my deeds."

He always likes to tell us Senators--talking about faith--he says the golden rule, treat other people the way we want to be treated, is the Cliffs Notes of the New Testament.

Our chaplain here in the Senate is an old Navy guy. He is a retired Navy Admiral. His name is Barry Black, and he is black.

Every child needs at least one good mentor, one good role model, and the more, the merrier.

I especially want to applaud whoever figured out the idea of assigning to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the responsibility for doing the outreach to key stakeholders.

Can we make the borders more secure? Yes, we can.

Maybe as we do our top-to-bottom review of the Department we can actually figure out how to have a few less Committees and Subcommittees for you to report to.

I want to go back to a point raised by Senator McCain.

I think a lot of them are user fee based, but we want to look very closely at those and work with our colleagues.

I believe they are significantly more secure.

In our roles as Governors, I do not know if that ever happened to you under your watch, but from time to time people were released, not often but infrequently, from prison in our State that should not have been released.

The next EPA Administrator will also play an important role in our battle against climate change.

One of my top priorities is reforming America's broken toxic chemical laws.

I look forward to supporting Gina McCarthy's nomination to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

There is a national security interest to make sure that we deal responsibly with global climate change.

I'm proud to have authored the 'Toxic Community Right-to-Know Act,' which created the Toxic Release Inventory.