Tom Carper

I think Gina McCarthy understands that. And I think she will be a very good partner with us.

Let's get this done, and I don't think you will regret it.

I, for one, think it would be a better decision to decide what you are going to do, make what you do permanent.

Mr. President, you have to lead. You have to show a willingness to lead on this.

What Senator Portman and I are working on is a proposal that simplifies it, that makes it permanent.

I am very concerned about the cuts in conservation in this budget, as well as in crop insurance, so that is something that this Senate is taking a different approach on.

I share the concerns about chained CPI and believe that, while we need to--and can--address long-term what needs to be done to strengthen Social Security with incremental change, it should not start by cutting benefits.

I do not think we will ever get out of debt with over 11 million people out of work, so we need to focus on jobs.

I would invite my colleagues to join us in the idea that there can be better health care results for the same amount of money or less money by going after some of the fraud that we all know exists, some of the waste and inefficiencies that…

Improper payments in 2010, $121 billion--billion! In 2011, down to $115 billion. That is still a lot of money.

I think we have a good one here, and I would just hope that we can get her reported out of here, get her confirmed with great dispatch.

Previously we have overpaid Medicare Advantage. I think we have corrected that.

In 2010, Senator Coburn and I introduced legislation, adopted and signed by President Obama, that said not only do they have to report improper payments, they have to stop making them.

I just like to talk about service, and I tell young people I meet with, in my life there are folks that I have met that are the least happy people are the people who do not really think about much outside of themselves.

If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.

The opportunities are just enormous for us to provide better care and for less money.

We need more revenues if we are serious about really balancing a budget or coming close.

We do not do enough about it, we never seem to do enough about it.

We need to be--and create some synergies that are dramatically needed as this Administration begins its second 4 years.

I think you bring us the kind of service and leadership that we need.

We have in too many cases the culture of spendthrift in Federal Government, and we need to replace that--with culture of thrift.

How can they be that smart and we be that dumb?

We need entitlement reform that saves money and that saves these programs for the long haul.

I think we are getting along better in the Senate than we have in a while.

I am furious that I cannot introduce her tomorrow. Joe Manchin is going to, and he better not speak as well as I am.