Tom Carper

Perhaps most importantly, this hearing will help Congress to understand what we must do to help our States come back stronger and to better protect us from other storms in the future.

Sandy didn't spare Delaware by any measure. And we have real needs that are beyond our State's ability to provide.

My hope is that others will see that, too.

We as a nation have come together to communities that have been impacted by these types of events.

Today, the shoe is on the other foot. We need the help of our neighbors, not just in Delaware...

Massive impacts of Hurricane Sandy continue to be felt by many people up and down the East Coast and to the Northeast.

I believe that one of the key roles of government, as I said earlier in my opening statement, is to create a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

We need to take steps to ensure that the people and communities who depend on Corps projects... are built to withstand the stresses of stronger, more frequent storms.

Though the subject of today's hearing is investing in water infrastructure, including ports and navigation, waterways, flood control, and environmental restoration, I think what this hearing is really more about is job creation and…

Now is a critical time to be focused on infrastructure investment.

We must take steps to ensure that the people and communities who depend on Corps projects can have confidence that those projects are built with rising seas in mind and are built to withstand the stresses of stronger and more frequent…

We must continue to invest, but we must also to invest more wisely.

Investment is critical.

I am excited to hear your enthusiasm for a bill.

Today's hearing is about the job creation potential of investing in water infrastructure.

I trust myself, Senator Feinstein. I trust Senators and Members of Congress who know the ground on which they live to make these decisions.

Thank you for having this hearing today to spotlight the benefits of investing in our nation's water resources.

It was far too long until we had a highway bill, and with your help and others we broke that, and we can do it again.

Find out what works, and do more of it.

I am very pleased with that culture of safety.

Since the NRC has issued the three orders, could you briefly---and we talked about this a little bit, I just want to come back to it again, but can you just briefly tell us whether any of the operators have begun to make changes to satisfy…

Can you give us an update on the status of the clean up there, how it is affecting the people there?

But the energy from all those plants has helped to curb our nation's reliance on fossil fuels.

I believe that our nuclear power plants are not required to submit their plans on how to comply with the recent NRC orders until the early part of next year.

Safety must always be our top priority when it comes to nuclear energy.