Tom Carper

They ought to get a vote, and I think they ought to get our support.

Someday there will be a Republican president.

It is not the minority's right to get nominees to agree with them in advance.

About the prison system?

I would urge you to think about that some more beyond this, and my hope is your staff here will be thinking about that.

We know that the States are the laboratories of democracy.

We could find out who to contact in Utah, learning about it, is it replicable, is it exportable.

Whatever agreement is struck by the President and the Speaker--my hope is that they will reach an agreement--it is going to involve trying to find ways to get better health care results for less money or better health care results for the…

There are all kinds of market forces that are really encouraging States to look for better results.

As an old Governor, I can tell you the States are getting killed on Medicaid costs. It is just sucking away money from K-12.

We operate under two imperatives--well, more than two, but at least two that I want to focus on. One of those is a moral imperative, and the moral imperative is to look out for the least of these.

We are still going to have huge budget deficits. Huge budget deficits.

Aside from cloning Senator Bingaman, what other advice would you have for us as we look to the future?

I think one of the things that is important is that it is an early-stage technology and it does need some help to get us back into a leadership position.

All right. Good. Thank you.

I actually think that is a pretty good approach. We will see if it passes muster in whatever we put together next year.

Utilities are much more focused on energy production rather than finding energy savings, for obvious reasons.

One of the provisions that Senator Snowe and I have worked on is an investment tax credit for offshore wind.

I have been told by industry that energy efficiency projects have a huge up-front cost, despite the long-range energy savings.

I sometimes say that the cleanest, most affordable form of energy is the energy we never use.

There is a huge potential for energy savings in this sector.

And we have fun doing them. One of the things we are going to do--a great idea from a brandnew Senator to Delaware about a year ago--is to have a ``Taste of Delaware.'' In fact, we are doing that this afternoon. It is not something paid…

We just want to say very much, thank you for being neighbors and treating us like--we're a Nation of neighbors.

I want to thank President Obama for the disaster declaration for Maryland that allowed FEMA to be available for public assistance.

In this case, there was really a team. And as I like to say, there is no 'I' in the word team.