Tom Carper

I have always said that if I cannot convince 50 of my colleagues to support a request that I have made, then I am in the wrong business, or at least I am picking the wrong projects.

Yet, the President says, we are going to have fiscal discipline. Members of Congress say, we are going to have fiscal discipline. Our question is when?

I think sometimes budget process things are sold for the wrong reasons or misunderstood or judged by the wrong standards.

I think the President finally saying, if you include funding again for the F-22, I am going to veto the bill, and that was very helpful.

Do you have any other additional concerns about S. 907 that were part of the 1996 line-item veto debate?

As has been noted earlier today, our bill, maybe our bills essentially superimpose fast-track authority on top of the President's current rescission authority.

We need to find a better way to reduce wasteful spending without jeopardizing the funding for our top priorities.

Every year, as Senator Feingold has said, Congress passes a number of spending bills, and, not surprisingly, these bills sometimes include spending on items which many of us would consider of marginal value, some even wasteful, and which…

We need to begin easing off of the accelerator with one foot and start tapping the brakes with the other foot, as we begin to slow the growth in spending and again begin to grow revenues.

Can you identify any use for presidential rescission authority if the President cannot get a vote in Congress?

I know no one who has a greater commitment to that, a highly principled commitment to that, than Russ Feingold.

Understanding the risks from certain chemicals, Congress attempted, I think it was in 1976, to give the EPA the tools necessary to protect public health from certain toxic chemicals in our country through the Toxic Substances Control Act.

However, as we all know, exposure to some chemicals or combination of chemicals can be toxic to human health and to our environment.

The use of chemicals in this country either saves, or in many cases improves the quality of not just thousands of lives, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives every day, even more than that.

At the end of the day, it is going to be the members of the Muslim community themselves who have to de-legitimize this as an ideology.

We are a legislative committee. We are not the FBI. We are not the Justice Department. We are not the judge; we are not the jury.

I think the Committee has a real opportunity to look at things like the restrictions pursuant to FISA.

We are not the FBI, we are not the Justice Department. We are none of those things. We are a legislative committee.

The day after December 7, the day that Delaware in 1787 became the first State to ratify the Constitution.

I appreciate what our friend, Senator Casey, said about public service.

It is important to our country and certainly important, I know, to us.

Congress must address this problem by finishing the work that we began in the Continuing Resolution and permanently restructuring the Postal Service's retiree health obligation in a more rational way.

Our thanks to your family, as well, for their willingness to share you with the people of our country.

It has been a great opportunity to continue what I do in my day job and also do some public service.

5-day delivery is the only pragmatic structural change that will generate the kinds of savings we are talking about, $3.4 billion according to our studies.