Tom Carper

I will quote one or two sentences out of the editorial. Other principles used to carry some weight in the U.S. House of Representatives: allowing lawmakers to vote their consciences, not manipulating voting rules to get the desired result…

Whether the deficit is 100,000 or 15,000 words, it is too much. The good news is this: We can do something about it. We can do something about it today. We can do something about it in 25 minutes when we vote on the Snowe-Dodd amendment…

In our economy, if you cut taxes by, a dollar, people will go out and spend $2.

I like to think that probably for the majority of people in our country, probably, that the biggest source of capital accumulation for a lot of folks is the equity in their home.

I used to kid the guy who was the Prime Minister of Japan; I remember meeting with him a number of years ago.

Well, when I was Governor of Delaware, our administration spent a fair amount of time encouraging homeownership.

I say in response, that is the way States and competition--friendly competition--have worked over the years, and if it worked in the last century, it is going to work out that way in this century as well.

Five years ago when this legislation was written on the moratorium, I don't believe DSL existed. The idea of people accessing the Internet over broadband was not something people thought much of. The idea of accessing the Internet over…

I never liked it when the Federal Government came in and tried to tell us in Delaware we had to spend money for some purpose but never provided the revenues to pay for that expenditure. Similarly, I never liked it when the Federal…

I want to take a moment to also express my thanks to them and say to my own counsel, Margaret Simmons, who has done great work on this bill, a special thank you. None of us do this stuff by ourselves, as we all know. In this case, we have…

I know him to be a thoughtful, decent, caring human being. He is a good manager and a good leader of his State. He has also been a great leader of our Nation's Governors. He is very bright and surrounds himself with excellent people. But…

I am encouraged that the Secretary has promulgated a letter. I don't know to what extent it also bears an imprimatur of OMB and the senior folks in the White House. I am encouraged by the letter. The point I am trying to make is that we…

I think the measure as it is being amended on the Senate floor is a significant improvement over what was offered in the House and approved by the House. It was a very close partisan vote. I think it passed by one vote. I appreciate the…

As a former member of the Amtrak board and Governor of Delaware, I personally understand the important role that board members play in leading the corporation and I want to thank my colleague for recognizing the special skills that…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

This is an issue I care about as much as the Senator from Alabama. The language that died, after having been reported out to the conference committee, was language that said when a person commits a violent act for which they are convicted…

It is quite another thing to list that transaction, do it electronically so anyone who has access to the Internet can find out about it. Senator Carnahan's amendment includes this electronic disclosure, and that is a very good improvement…

Amtrak is running out of operating funds for this fiscal year. They expect to run out of operating funds sometime in early July. The new president of Amtrak has announced his intention to try to negotiate a loan for Amtrak from a…

I have to tell you, I did not understand the rationale for offering this amendment outside of the bill, why it was not included as part of the bill. I did not understand why it is subject to a budget point of order. Would the chairman…

My basic question for the committee chairman is, How do we pay for this benefit?

As a Governor of my State, I was a supporter of tax cuts. We cut taxes for 7 years in a row. In fact, we eliminated the gift and inheritance tax altogether. While we cut taxes 7 years in a row, we also balanced the budget 8 years in a row…

The Levin-Bond amendment language which is in this bill requires the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate regulations increasing fuel efficiency standards. Our amendment changes nothing in the Levin-Bond amendment. Our amendment says…

Part of what is proposed in this railroad retirement plan is: Take the money that has been set aside, paid into by the railroads themselves and by the railroad employees; that can only be invested in U.S. Treasury obligations.

I thought, 28 years ago, we needed an energy policy for our country. Twenty-eight years later, we still need an energy policy for our country. We did not have one then; and we do not have one now.

Having said that, if we have not learned any other lesson from the events of 3 weeks ago, I hope we have learned that this country needs an energy policy. ... Today it is almost 60 percent, and we still have no energy policy. My hope is…