Tom Carper

I'm privileged to serve as chairman of a committee called Environment and Public Works.

The Corps is committed to evolving our procedures, our planning efforts, and project operations to bolster adaptation and increase resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Thank you very much, General.

Our constitution dedicates every dollar to coastal restoration and protection.

Climate change is not something I thought a whole lot about when I used to come here

We must restore it, we must protect it.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

The idea that they are shutting down their nuclear power plants so that they can buy natural gas from Russia, not a good idea.

The pitch, well-telegraphed, is right here, in the ideas. We always look on this committee, more than probably any committee in the Senate, as much as any committee in the Senate, we look on ways to find consensus, even where there is a…

Thanks for your leadership over all these years on trying to get us to a place where we have safe, clean nuclear energy and do it in ways that are smart.

The NRC is expected to finalize this framework, not by 2027, but actually I have learned this last week, by 2024, about 3 years ahead of the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act's deadlines.

There are provisions that actually do, tax provisions provide production tax credits that are, my staff and I and others on this committee were involved in.

I want to thank Senator Capito for suggesting that we have at least one hearing early this year that focuses on the major source of carbon-free electricity in this Country of ours, and that is nuclear power.

It is important that we do.

I believe one of the primary roles of government is to help create a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

Whoever came up with that, I take my hat off to them. I am not big for acronyms, but this is a good one: Sensible Timely Relief for America's Nuclear Districts Economic Development, the STRANDED Act, for short.

The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

My mom raised my sister and me to believe in practicing the Golden Rule, treat other people the way we want to be treated.

The numbers don't lie. As I said earlier, nuclear energy is by far the largest source of reliable, clean energy in our Country, generating over half of our Nation's carbon-free electricity.

My hope is that we can buildupon and improve the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act which became law in 2019.

I think when the first set of payments that we sent out, when we fell into the pandemic, I think that about $1.4 billion was sent to people who were dead.

This has to be part of our DNA, and the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch as well.

I was privileged to lead a congressional delegation, a bipartisan congressional delegation--I think it was 1991--at the urging of then-President George Herbert Walker Bush.

The most important thing at this point for our country, I do believe, is disclosure, is making the information available

We worked in conjunction with a couple of our Senate colleagues, including John Kerry and John McCain.