Tom Carper

I want to again commend our staffs for finding you and convincing you to come and join us.

A republic, if we can keep it.

I am a former Governor of Delaware, and the last Vietnam veteran serving in the U.S. Senate.

If it is not perfect, make it better.

Harry Truman once said, 'The only thing new in the world is the history we forgot or never learned.'

I think we all agree that we do not want to be disseminating extremist, violence-inducing type of behavior through these platforms, but we also need to protect free speech as well.

If people know the truth they will not make a mistake.

I like to say, if it is not perfect, make it better, so keep working on it.

I love making unanimous consent requests when there is nobody here who could object.

But also critically important in creating a nurturing environment is the ability to move people and products...

One of the best family trips my family ever took was to Alaska.

I like helping people. One of the great things in the jobs that you have done across the country...

I like to ask people, what makes you happy in your life, in your work, whatever you do.

Vehicle emissions from the transportation sector represent the largest single source of carbon emissions in our country, accounting for something close to 30 percent for all U.S. emissions in 2020.

I need your assurance that as you develop the competitive grant program, the particular and urgent needs of coastal communities that are at risk of losing vital transportation access are put at the very forefront of the department's…

If confirmed as Administrator, will you work to ensure that agencies are providing... necessary assistance to counties, to cities, to towns...

By rail, you can move one ton of freight from Washington, DC, to Boston on one gallon of diesel fuel.

I want to thank you for taking the time to appear before us today.

Mobility is freedom. And for some people it means it is a car, for other people it might mean a bike path...

I would like to say that if the shoe were on the other foot, and I were the witness testifying at my confirmation hearing, I am not sure I would have brought a 7 and a 9 year old boy to sit behind me, and expect them to behave as well as…

One of the things that we always come back to in those meetings is the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way we want to be treated.

I have sought to find ways for our infrastructure investments to also promote equity for communities that have not always been treated fairly.

We support the legislation that came out of the Ag Committee a year or two ago on regenerative agriculture, trying to encourage farmers to put back into the soil.

It is my professional opinion that this bill would make things worse.

The most significant investment to combat climate change in our Nation's history.