Tom Carper

Despite the best efforts of our Nation's best environmental scientists--some of whom are here today--to help us understand the environmental impacts of this spill, the reality is that we do not know--and we may not know for years to…

One of the lessons that I have learned as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, where I oversee the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is the importance of effective regulatory oversight to ensure that we avoid future…

And so we must work to make sure that the laws and regulations that we have in place protect these critical industries from harm in a fair and real way.

As a member from a coastal State, I understand well the importance of our shorelines to our local and national economies.

As I have mentioned before, our hearts go out to the folks impacted by this terrible accident--to the families of the 11 workers that died and those that were injured.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My thanks to both you and Senator Boxer for holding the hearing.

We had really troubling reports this year of the enumerators, the people actually going out and doing the counting, being harassed just trying to do their job.

Insanity is described as doing the same thing over and over and over again expecting a different result and not getting it.

When you say uncovering latent networks, I think I know what that means, but maybe not everybody does.

I was troubled by, Dr. Coburn, who sat here where Senator McCain sat for many years.

This Subcommittee has fairly broad jurisdiction across a lot of different parts of our Federal Government.

Did you say this was an assignment or an undertaking that was deemed to be impossible by the intelligence community? Did you say that?

We do not hear that every day, do we?

I suspect that a lot of Americans might be surprised that there was not already a single list of people or companies that the government should not be sending money to.

We need to really be thinking outside the box.

I want to make sure that the way we do the census then will be a good deal different than the way we have done it this year and 10 years ago and 20 years ago and so forth.

The cost of the census is measured in billions and billions of dollars, and it is going up.

So I would still get more money than Senator McCain.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

We are looking for--in the Legislative Branch, we are always looking for pay-fors

Your continuing championing this issue is helpful for me.

The leadership involvement and emphasis is so critical.

I often say right here in this hearing room, if it is not perfect, make it better; everything I do I know I can do better.

But from my standpoint, my guiding principle is to make sure that HHS is as aggressive on the spectrum as they can be without crossing into lines of inequity or administrative problem.

As I understand it, during this last year we stood down the recovery audit contracting activities in these five States and did a lessons learned.