Senator Coons and I spent a couple of lovely hours together in Michael Beals' synagogue last Saturday as his daughter was going through bat mitzvah. I will never forget that occasion. What a joy for everyone there, people from all over the…

As you know, we have already referred to here to extreme weather events such as the horrific tornado in Oklahoma earlier this week and Super Storm Sandy which visited my part of the Country which seem to be occurring with greater frequency…

What are some things that we might be doing to better ensure that our nuclear plants are safe?

I just urge the Chair of the NRC to be as responsive as you can be to those concerns.

I think communication is extremely important in the issue of regulating nuclear facilities.

we do not think that is a smart decision.

I think she has great potential, but she has to get a really strong team around her.

I always ask them to give us advice, like, what should we be doing more of, less of?

there needs to be oversight.

Maybe, how can we change the incentives so that the folks who are making these decisions are incentivized to do that.

You said it has the potential for saving billions of dollars. We agree. And we are not doing that.

If we are interested in performance and actually for the Administration to do its job, there is nobody home.

I am Tom Carper and I approve this message.

hopefully, we can take the invitation from Senator Landrieu, who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee for Homeland Security, and try to get that number back to a better place.

we are committed to continue to work with the Congress.

unless there is serious congressional oversight, we are not going to see meaningful progress in the implementation of that legislation.

I feel fortunate that Tom and I have been given this opportunity to lead this Committee at this point in time.

We do not create jobs. What we do is help create a nurturing environment for job creation.

In order to do a tax reform that is going to be responsible, we need the full involvement of the Treasury Department.

We need to provide some certainty with respect to the Tax Code, and I think we need some more revenues.

I would like to maybe put this hearing in context.

I rise today to express my deep gratitude and best wishes to Ms. Jane Holl Lute for her service as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, over the past 4 years. Ms. Lute arrived at DHS in April 2009 with an already…

CBO has now said it will be probably closer to $650 billion--only $650 billion, and that is an improvement.

I do think it makes sense to take a look at it.

It is obvious to you, it should be as Commissioners, that a lot of money is being spent under the rubric of 501(c)(4), a lot.