Tom Carper

We care a lot about the folks who live there.

I do not think there is any community in America that has won the Abilene Trophy more than Dover.

I now move that the Committee report S. 2372, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act of 2021, as amended.

The yeas are 10, and the nays are 10. The amendment has failed.

The yeas are 10, and the nays are 10. The amendment fails.

I want to thank everybody for staying so we can get this show on the road.

We can do a lot better, and I thank you, Chairman, for your leadership to help us get there.

I trust Governor Carper as much as I trust Senator Carper.

For now, I am just going to suggest we go ahead and vote.

TVA can and must do more, and it all starts with leadership.

Our State is sinking. The waters around us are rising.

We face terrific challenges with way too much carbon dioxide in the air, and that we need to do something about it.

For some time, I have encouraged leadership at TVA to do all they can to make TVA an industry leader, not a laggard, when it comes to clean energy, energy efficiency, and industry safety.

Madam Chairman, thank you very much for holding the hearing.

It would be a tragedy if that deadline meant that the money did not get to where you intended it to go.

I don't recall the last time a Chairman or a Chairwoman suspended their questions so I could ask a question, but thank you for your kindness.

I think I would like to be mayor of Newark or New Ark. I'm not sure which one.

Having a full understanding of how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which we helped write literally in this room, and how it is being implemented and used by communities is, I think, the critical next step in ensuring that these funds…

This man to my right, Senator Peters, was Chairman of the Committee for like barely a year, and we passed the legislation that the President is going to sign in a couple days.

I think there is an obligation we have if we want to encourage the Postal Service to move away from gas and diesel vehicles.

When the Postal Service was first really envisioned in the Constitution of our country, and Ben Franklin became the first Postmaster General, the idea there was to try to bind our country together for communications and really for economic…

We are proud of the legislation that we passed. We are very proud that it was a bipartisan bill.

Yes. Mr. Kan, a 'yes' or 'no' would be good.

Our thanks to our two nominees for their willingness to serve in these important capacities.

I have worked on these issues, as you may know, for years and years and years.