Tom Carper

Senator Carper mentioned that we just finished walking every street of this country building the master address file.

I think it is probably in several million in number. But the undercount occurs among, if you will, the least of these and the people that are usually the lowest income and minorities, folks that are renters and in some cases, children.

Well, that is encouraging.

I learned that in my very own home state of Delaware, nearly 12,000 residents were missed in the 2000 Census.

You get a prize for coming the furthest to today's hearing.

Instead of thinking of ways to prevent over-classification, agencies seem to classify first and ask questions later.

One way to save a lot of time and money, as we all know, is to catch problems before they spiral out of control.

All right. Well, I expect if you are confirmed, we will want to follow up on this...

That is a great statement.

We are glad that the two of you are here. We are glad that you brought your parents all the way from Switzerland.

We could be your back-up.

Senator Carper. Very well. Thank you.

We need to address the problem from the start, at the point that records are created.

I think you and I discussed this briefly a couple of weeks ago...

Well, that is nice to hear. I feel very fortunate to have the folks around me, and I know I speak for my colleagues on the Subcommittee.

I have about 300 more questions here. I am not going to read them all, but I am going to submit maybe a couple more questions for the record.

In football, they do audibles with the quarterback at the line of scrimmage, so maybe we will do one of those.

It does not allow citizens to hold our government as accountable as they otherwise might be able to.

I do that as a Senator--whether it is with the upcoming census, tax filings, or even discussions on health care.

Ten percent of the funds from the auctioning of carbon emissions allowances would go into a pot, and that pot would fund low emission transportation improvements like bikeways and sidewalks.

Senator Carper and I have prepared legislation that would provide strict national limits on sulfur, nitrogen and mercury emissions from power plants.

From the work that you have done at GAO, could you provide us maybe with an example or two of how an agency was able to bring about better outcomes through the use of performance information?

I think it needs to be a collaborative effort, and certainly we want to involve you and your staff in helping us think through how is it most useful to you.

The first State will become next year the last State to host a national park.

Just coming out of our markup over in the Finance Committee on health care reform, there was a lot of discussion about defensive medicine.