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Tom Carper

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Tom Carper is an American politician currently serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Carper has focused on various issues including healthcare, environmental protection, and fiscal responsibility throughout his career. He previously served as the Governor of Delaware from January 21, 1993, to January 2, 2001, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1983, to January 21, 1993.

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Jun 7, 2011

Can you give us a sense of what kinds of costs are incurred by virtue of these treatments?

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Jun 7, 2011

The summer smog season, also known as the ozone season, is a powerful reminder of how important it is to have clean air to breathe.

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Jun 7, 2011

I believe children are best served when their parents have good paying jobs with benefits.

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Jun 7, 2011

So I believe that our job in the Senate is to make sure things don't get worse and make sure that we create an economic environment where things actually can get better.

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May 25, 2011

I have every expectation that the Korean government will live up to the obligations that it committed to.

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May 25, 2011

U.S. innovation is critical to keeping our business competitive and to creating jobs.

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May 25, 2011

We are not going to throw you under the bus; we are going to take your interests and your families' interests in consideration to make sure we look out for you, too.

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May 25, 2011

I think it is important for us to more or less do these together is, there is a fair amount of job creation that is going to inure to us in this country from the adoption of an agreement like this.

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May 25, 2011

The agreement eliminates tariffs on two-thirds of American agricultural exports to South Korea.

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May 24, 2011

Good. Ten million dollars for most of us as individuals or families, that is a lot of money. But I would certainly observe that while it is a lot of money, compared to $125 billion, it is a relatively modest sum.

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May 24, 2011

I think because we are requiring or having more agencies that are complying with the law and we have amended the law to make the net a little bigger.

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May 24, 2011

They say that sunshine is the best disinfectant and it is a pretty good one.

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May 24, 2011

We have record budget deficits as we know, and our national debt stands at about $14.3 trillion dollars.

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May 24, 2011

one of the maybe most cost effective ways to leverage our interest in changing the culture around here from a culture of spendthrift to a culture of thrift

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May 24, 2011

I think the very encouraging work that you and your colleagues are doing with respect to consolidating the number of data centers we have and reducing them, I think you said, from about 2,000 down to around 800 over the next 5 years or so…

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May 24, 2011

We can just continue to give them that advantage and put ourselves at a disadvantage, or we can try to do something about it.

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May 24, 2011

Could I just interrupt for a second? GWACs, BPAs. We go through acronyms every day.

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May 24, 2011

The legal limit for borrowing money by our Federal Government has been met.

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May 24, 2011

We are trying to change the culture in the Federal Government from what we describe as a culture of spendthrift to something closer to a culture of thrift.

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May 24, 2011

This is money we do not have. This is money that we end up just going around the world and borrowing.

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May 24, 2011

Not everybody gets excited about this stuff. And I know sometimes my colleagues look at me, roll their eyes and say why do you spend so much time focusing on it, or why do you get so juiced up about this?

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May 24, 2011

enormous is a very good adjective.

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May 24, 2011

I think we have about 2,000 of them in the Federal Government, and the effort is to try to reduce that to about 800 and to save I think he said $3 billion. I think it is $3 billion over 5 years, which that is real money.

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May 24, 2011

Everything I do I know I can do better. The same is true for all of us.

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