Tom Carper

The products that are being handled by the Postal Service, are they actually paying their way?

I think there is a shared responsibility--a shared responsibility for us to make sure that what I call the 'master death file' is actually as accurate--more accurate than it is already.

Joe Biden likes to say that all diplomacy is personal. He also says that all politics is personal. I think he is right.

Thanks for sharing him in a number of different roles.

Tell us what the rules are going to be. Give us a reasonable amount of time and some flexibility, and just get out of the way.

We just rolled back some Dodd-Frank regulations because it went way too far.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

And in adversity lies opportunity. There is adversity here, but also a lot of opportunity for both of you.

We like to say in Delaware, we punch above our weight.

I think we found out that there are like 5 million people on records at the Social Security Administration, where they are at or above the age of 112.

Last year, we were told by GAO that improper payments amounted to about $144 billion--$144 billion.

One of the things that she wanted us to do was to focus on figuring out the right thing to do, not what was easy or expedient, but what was the right thing to do.

The weight of the scientific evidence does not show that PFOA or PFOS cause health effects in humans.

This is important stuff to us in Delaware, and I know it is in other States as well.

Policies and actions must be guided by the best available science rather than fear-driven discussions.

I will say in closing, for myself, this is a really important issue and I again want to thank Senator Whitehouse and Senator Sullivan for their great leadership on this, and our Chairman for holding this hearing and for Senator Inhofe's…

I think we have to be careful here when we are trying to develop policies that are going to ultimately enhance global sustainability.

So, we should set a target of going from at least our 9 percent to what Europe is doing, which is around 30 percent.

The United States can then play a much stronger global role. We are now only recycling 9 percent of our plastics.

We have to explore and deliver on these standards.

We have to standardize this process so we can work at scale and we can innovate at scale.

I really believe that people don't understand the concept of the circular economy and we have very much a culture that is throwaway.

Part of the root cause in solving that problem, all these people trying to get into our Country from our southern borders, is to help make sure that their lives are less miserable in those three countries; they have some hope of…

The root cause of all that, though, is the lives that they live in those three countries are miserable; and we are complicit in their misery given our dependency and addition to all kinds of drugs, narcotics.

The Federal Government cannot undertake this effort alone.