Tom Carper

I think I would like to, I don't think I have ever done this. I would like to start with a moment of silence and prayer.

As public servants our duty was to provide transparency and to deliver results to the American people, for whom we work.

We need to deal in a more comprehensive and decisive way, especially with ephemeral messages.

It is important that the TSP remains a competitive retirement savings plan on par with private sector offerings.

Senate confirmation has an important role to play in the quality of the leadership and management of the agency.

We seem to have gotten away from that here, and it is a matter of concern for--it has been a matter of concern for me for a long time through the present.

I am grateful that we are doing it and grateful to our witnesses for your help.

I know personally how important, it was to be able to get my team in place.

Having Senate-confirmed leaders in place promotes more efficient and effective administration.

It would be a shame if we spent all these years only to have to wait year after year having Infrastructure Week.

I think I speak not just for Senator Capito but for all our colleagues on this Committee, it has really been a privilege for us at this point in time in our Nation's history to have a chance coming out of the worst pandemic in 100 years…

This is hydrogen. This is hydrogen.

There is a lot of interface, as you know, with the work we do on this Committee.

I think on commitments per minute, that probably got the most commitments of anybody who has questioned him today.

I will say, I think I missed an opportunity with regard to Senator Capito's question about One Federal Decision to note that there has already been a one time hack in the law, which was the 60 day requirement to share information on the…

Hopefully we will have an announcement before too long that the baseball strike is over, and we can say, play ball.

I understand, I had my staff double check, but I think our friends at General Motors have indicated they are not going to be selling vehicles that are powered by fossil fuels at some point in time, the number 2035 sticks in my mind.

The two Cs, communicate and compromise.

But we do make laws.

We provided substantially more funds for the Transportation Alternative Program, increasing it from $850 million to $1.4 billion.

As Senator Capito knows, and some of our colleagues know as well, I ended up moving to Delaware when I got out of the Navy at the end of the Vietnam war.

I think it is important to acknowledge the significant role that our Committee played in drafting this legislation.

We have a highway to nowhere that was built in downtown Baltimore that very much negatively impacted on the residential communities.

My father, who never went beyond high school, he was a World War II veteran, GI Bill, learned how to fix wrecked cars at Burleson Oldsmobile in Beckley, West Virginia.

This law represents the single largest investment in our Nation's history with respect to our roads and bridges.